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  Last week here in Chicago we saw all branches of local government: Mayor Daley, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, Governor Blagojevich and CTA President Ron Huberman proposing to raise taxes or cut services because there are no funds available to support current expenditures for aging structures, public services and public programs such as education. Meanwhile we are spending trillions in Iraq...... Who does this make sense to? The Current Occupant has vetoed spending for child care while requesting an additional enormous amount of money for this war. Does anyone remember the $8.8 billion - Iraq's missing billions" that disappeared into US controlled Iraqi ministries in 2004? How can we continue to allow this? We are talking about trillions of dollars as if they were grains of sand......This money represents the taxes of how many average tax-paying families? Maybe if someone calculated it out - which is not very hard to do - people would realize how much hard earned money that is being wasted, wasted, wasted in Iraq. Dulcis in fundo for the Chicago boys in the current administration is that as a result of this ill-fated adventure in Iraq the next crisis will be here in the US. To pay for this enormous debt we will be selling -privatizing - portions of the government: highways, tollways, public transportation, school systems, public parking and more to come. The irony is that these will be sales of government property purchased with our past taxes which actually make these properties "our" properties since we paid for them. We will not get a penny out of these sales. $2.4 trillion by 2017? We cannot do this, we cannot, we cannot. Please do not let this happen.

  Fabio Grego Posted October 25, 2007 12:15 AM
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  Last week here in Chicago we saw all branches of local government: Mayor Daley, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, Governor Blagojevich and CTA President Ron Huberman proposing to raise taxes or cut services because there are no funds available to support current expenditures for aging structures, public services and public programs such as education. Meanwhile we are spending trillions in Iraq...... Who does this make sense to? The Current Occupant has vetoed spending for child care while requesting an additional enormous amount of money for this war. Does anyone remember the $8.8 billion - Iraq's missing billions" that disappeared into US controlled Iraqi ministries in 2004?

  How can we continue to allow this? We are talking about trillions of dollars as if they were grains of sand......This money represents the taxes of how many average tax-paying families? Maybe if someone calculated it out - which is not very hard to do - people would realize how much hard earned money that is being wasted, wasted, wasted in Iraq. Dulcis in fundo for the Chicago boys in the current administration is that as a result of this ill-fated adventure in Iraq the next crisis will be here in the US. To pay for this enormous debt we will be selling -privatizing - portions of the government: highways, tollways, public transportation, school systems, public parking and more to come. The irony is that these will be sales of government property purchased with our past taxes which actually make these properties "our" properties since we paid for them. We will not get a penny out of these sales.

  $2.4 trillion by 2017? We cannot do this, we cannot, we cannot. Please do not let this happen.

  Fabio Grego Posted October 25, 2007 12:15 AM
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  That is all money needed to rebuild industry in the united states to get unemployed back to work and help america compete with china. Foget wars and use our money wiser and not throw it away on wars.

  popeyeusa Posted October 24, 2007 9:37 PM
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  Over the next decade? Why does the United States plan to finance war if they want peace? Something doesn't sound right. It almost sounds like they want to pay for war for another 10 years. I have often thought that if the United States, or I should say the Federal Reserve System did not finance the war there wouldn't be any war. Take away all the bullets from our soldier and poof you have peace.

  Jim Reynolds Posted October 24, 2007 8:28 PM