The simple issue is that we are spending 400 Billion MORE per year then we tax. Most of that money is spent on obligations that we as a country have made and those that say just cut spending and the problem is solved have not looked at just what the tax dollars are being spent on. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 clas
I just contacted the Army Recruiting office to learn what we are paying in bonuses. The front end enlistment is $20-40,000 and the education benefit up to $72,000. That means to recruit 120,000 into the Army could cost $13 Billion just in enlistment incentives. The cost when they are on active duty has been estimated for 10,000 military at $1.2 Billion per year. Thus for a
First, the groups receiving the largest percentage of the tax cuts, need it the least. This is counter-intuitive. Not at all. Please take note that the people that receive tax cuts are the ones paying taxes. Years ago the poor were eliminated from the tax roll so the poor pay no taxes. This shifted the tax burden to the middle and upper income br
Actually you discribe a typical liberal
so by posting this you are saying that the President wants to add more troops and the Generals don't want to add more troops. Is this the opposite of what you have been saying for months?
Gene, are you ever going to rebut what I wrote or is your rebuttal your repeating what I have refuted over and over again? For anyone to try and make a case that we are winning or that what we were told about this war was true is just absurd. Unless you read the facts and ignore the BS, you seem to read the BS and ignore the facts. Base
I was surprised to walk by a news stand and find that I have been chosen as Time Magazines person of the year. I mean it is a great honor to even be selected but to be chosen is even better. My selfless hours of working with the poor and supporting our president have made a difference in the world and I want to thank Time for recognizing me for this honor. It is proof positive that even as liberal as Time Magazine is they recognize a conservative as the person of the year. Fair and balance I wou
A bar chart in the Pentagon's report to Congress gave no exact numbers but indicated the weekly average had approached 1,000 in the latest period, compared to about 800 per week from the May-to-August period. Statistics provided separately by the Pentagon said weekly attacks had averaged 959 in the latest period. I love this one. Yes, attacks are
As I said, everything we were told about the Iraq war was not a little wrong it was totally WRONG. We have a President that insists he did the right thing when ALL the results say just the opposite. We are NOT safer. Hollan
Back in 2002, the White House was quick to distance itself from Lindsey's view. Mitch Daniels, director of the White House budget office, quickly called the estimate "very, very high." Lindsey himself was dismissed in a shake-up of the White House economic team later that year, and in January 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the budget office had come up with "
Transcript for Sept. 14 Sunday, September 14, 2003 GUEST: Dick Cheney, vice president Tim Russert, moderator VICE PRES. DICK CHENEY: My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. We were. There were 21k pictures of it happening. There is video of it happening. Yet you still refuse to admit it happened. This means you are not
From the mushroom clouds to the cost and duration of the war EVERYTHING we were told was a lie. For the $50 Billion cost estimate to be correct, we would have had to end our occupation in about 6 months. We are spending over $100 billion per year to maintain 140,000 troops in Iraq. The people of Iraq DO NOT look at us as LIBERATORS but OCCUPIERS. ALL LIES. </tabl
Brown and his four principal subordinates. The Chief Procurement Officer at the White House. The staff rebuilding Iraq that have lost $9 Billion Dollars. The current FEMA Staff that has lost $1 Billion dollars in the Gulf (this is after Brown). Most of the poor in the Gulf have not even started to rebuild. The rubble remains on the sites where there homes were before the s
No, the press is called that in its own smugness, but the press couldn't stop Bush from finishing the job, say, in Fallujah. They have no veto, no vote, and the President doesn't have to check with them. He had the opportunity for victory, and he allowed political PR concerns to cloud his judgment. I don't know of this situation so I can't commen
On North Korea: Interesting--I had already heard that the North Koreans had no power in many villages and that food was scarce. Food does come in from China but corruption amongst government officials prevents a lot of it from reaching the needy. China has gone capitalist because they were going broke like all the other communist nations. China
We have lost 3,000 troops; suffered 25,000 injured and spent about 3/4 of a trillion dollars to fight a person that posed no danger to this country. Not true we lost less than 400 people during the war with Iraq. What we are fighting now is strictly the war on terror. You did not read what I wrote on the cost of the war or the threat he
We were told the Iraq War would be QUICK and Clean. In fact I thing that was the exact words Bush used when the Pope expressed concern about our invading Iraq. You were told the war would be quick by the fairy land press! All administration officials held the same line that the war on terror would be a long one. The war in Iraq would not be easy
The world was at risk from Germany and Japan. That is not the case with Iraq. Iraq was not capable of attacking ANYONE! We have been at war in Iraq LONGER then WWII and are getting farther from success every day! There was such violent opposition to the war in Europe that any attempt to join would have resulted in the impeachment of Mr. Roosevelt
Those lives are thrown away when they sacrifice them for a goal only to pull back in fear of political damage. This is what has been going on since the first person died in Iraq. For the political goal of taking the White House and Congress the Democrats have been screaming that it was all Mr. Bush's fault, he can't run the war properly and that
I agree with you that the levels should have gone up earlier but you can’t put the blame solely on the President. Congress has to shoulder some of that blame since Congress sets the troop levels. The JCS did not like it when Mr. Clinton reduced the number of troops and warned this would happen. When I was in the service we had 390k Marines on active duty. Now they hover around 196k and that includes reservist I assume the Army is just as bad off. I remember when the USSR fell everyone of the lib
They have become so lacking in basic credibility as to be nearly useless. Nearly? When I was young my mother made me read the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post every day. She said it was the only way to find out the truth because each paper wrote the same story with their own slant. In reading all three you got the wh
Yes I have to laugh when I read this - the Governments today are far too open with info like that - talking about shooting yourself in the foot!! You will most likely laugh at this. The editors of the NYT believe it is the readers fault that they are not doing better business. They honestly believe that we the people are too dumb to understand h
Disagreement with our government within the country is a needed, good and healthy thing for various reasons. What is dangerous and unhealthy is taking that same message outside our borders. That is the cheerleading that I don’t agree with. To the outside world we have to present a united front which is why politics is supposed to stops at the waters edge. What is happening in the last few wars is our dirty laundry is being aired for the world to see and we wonder why we are not respected anymore
Don't you accuse me of cheering for the enemy. I have a solid record of supporting the effort in Iraq and mourning the fact that the LEADERS OF OUR MILITARY pull back every time the political wind changes. It appears I hurt your feelings for that I am sorry, it was not my intention to be personal, more to make a point. Disagreement with our gover
The casualty is the United States. Nothing we said about Iraq and the danger to the U.S. was true. Nothing we said about how the war would unfold was true. We have MORE Moslems that are willing to attacks us then before we invaded Iraq. The man that planned 9/11 is still free and the war in Afghanistan is not going well. I would say we are the causality!
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