U.S. Funding Priorities
It’s a sad day when you can’t pay for children’s health insurance because you’re too busy killing children:
$35 billion is too much to spend on children’s health, because since some of the children covered weren’t poor enough!
Bush Requests $46 Billion for Wars
$46 billion, on top of $142 billion in February, bringing the grand total north of $1 trillion. The purse is bottomless when you’re spending to kill.
This isn’t rocket science here, folks. You can’t run a platform of low taxes and small government when you increase spending for the military at every turn. Just think what [a small portion of] $1 trillion could have done to invigorate the green energy industry in the U.S., revolutionize education, or transform our aging infrastructure into something to be proud of.
And let’s not forget that since we started this military spending adventure in the middle east, our precious tax dollars have lost 30% of their value against the Euro.
To put it another way, the 2003 dollar that Bush so courageously refused to collect as taxes is now worth €0.70. Gee, thanks.
Filed under economics, politics, war : Comments (1) : Oct 22nd, 2007 by tadfad
October 25th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Living in Europe and still getting paid in dollars is awesome.