Return to Article: Congress to act quickly on Bush's $51.8 billion aid request
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Shrub keeps talking about "staying the course" although he's never defined what that means. He keeps talking about staying in Iraq until "we win" although he's never defined what it means to win. Why would anyone believe that a man who has failed at everything he's attempted (baseball team owner, businessman, soldier, president) could possibly resolve thousands of years of cultural and religious differences between the factions in Iraq in a few short years? Why should we encourage our sons and daughters to fight in a war started by men who refused to fight in a war? How many more lives and how much more money are you willing to sacrifice, America, how many more people have to fall into poverty, how much more are we willing to pay for gas while the oil industry (which includes Bush and Cheney) loots the wallets of the taxpayers? How many people have to die needlessly in an another natural disaster before we wake up? George W. Bush - Never in Doubt, Almost Always Wrong.
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All this reminds me of is when Clinton was president we had three years of surplus (that means money over our expenses) and within a short period of time Mr. Bush gave the richest among us a trillion dollar tax cut and now we have to borrow money to pay the bills we are now looking at.
So, don't tell me the republicans are for the poorest among us, they have proven to me, they like the rich and don't much care about the poor.
Deficits do count and poor people can't do anything about it. National debt counts and poor people can't do anything about it. At the current rate the National debt will equal the GDP in short order. What do we do then? What happens when the Communist Chinese call in their loans and demand full payment? We will be broke and unable to pay our debt.
How are we going to blame Clinton for that?
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Who wants to bet on how many no-bid contracts Halliburton gets outta this pot of pork?
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We should certainly do this. BUT.....this is ONE reason we need to keep some focus on our "OWN", before getting so involved in Iraq.
How much can this country afford?
This affects all of us.
With the new pay system, the gas prices, the already poor getting poorer, the middle class becoming poorer, the seniors and Veterans in proverty who have given so much, the many issues we have facing us in America, how can we afford to do what we are doing in Iraq? Sadly, now that what has been done, we are obligated to get to a certain point over there. Just look at the cost. Not only in money, but lives, family suffering and suffering in our own land.
Our own who is in the position to make the decisions, apparently don't think they ever need to prepare for a "rainy day". They already "have" and THINK they too are always covered.
They speak and represent this country and its people. We need to get these people to wake up.
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