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Just wondering where your heart is.......

I think we should

  • not worry about collapsing bridges, we need to keep funding the vacationing Iraqi Parliment

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  • let the Iraqi's deal with theiir own civil war and keep our money and infrastructure investment at h

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Goodpasture

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We are spending $2,000,000,000 a month in Iraq. We are doing this while our schools, roads, and bridges go unrepaired. Is it worth it?
 

Mike

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Is all that money staying in Iraq?

Are the paychecks of the soldiers and workers from here coming home to be added into our economic system?

Are the U.S. munitions companies and various suppliers sending all the money they get paid for goods back to Iraq?

I read somewhere a few months ago that approx. 75% of the cost of the war came back to the USA.

So........is all this money wasted?



I heard the same argument years ago when we were sending men to the moon.

The olds folks were saying, "why are we spending all this money on the moon?"

When it was suggested that this money wasn't being spent on the moon, it was being spent right here..........they got a wrinkled forehead................................
 

Jinglebob

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BS poll.

Where was the question about taking care of Iraq and ourselves, like we are doing right now?

That's one of the problems now with libs and con's in govt., they both want to make decisions based on piss poor polls! :mad:
 

flrooster

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what about the vacationing American lawmakers?of course IMO the less they are in Wash the less they can screw things up.
 
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Anonymous

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Mike said:
Is all that money staying in Iraq?

Are the paychecks of the soldiers and workers from here coming home to be added into our economic system?

Are the U.S. munitions companies and various suppliers sending all the money they get paid for goods back to Iraq?

I read somewhere a few months ago that approx. 75% of the cost of the war came back to the USA.

So........is all this money wasted?



I heard the same argument years ago when we were sending men to the moon.

The olds folks were saying, "why are we spending all this money on the moon?"

When it was suggested that this money wasn't being spent on the moon, it was being spent right here..........they got a wrinkled forehead................................

Are you serious? The $600 million American embassy being built in Iraq (the largest US embassy in the world) is not being built by an American company. It's being built by the First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Co. Since they don't trust Iraqis to work in the Green Zone, most of the laborers come from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Sierra Leone. How much of that $600 million do you think will come back here?

Most of the people in the Green Zone who cook, clean, do laundry, are from the same general part of the world.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072601792.html
 

backhoeboogie

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Mike said:
How much of that $600 million do you think will come back here?

$600 million is a drop in the bucket.

Just our military pay is over $45 million per day.

Mike I think he was conveying insider information. But I don't intend to invest stock nickels in First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting Co at this time. Trying to keep my investments here in the U.S.
 

Steve

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worry about collapsing bridges


How nice, turn the deaths into political fodder...

we can all see where your Heart lies...

Mine is with the families who are grieving now....and those who are injured...
 

Cal

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There are so many ways for the left to tell us that they want to surrender and let the terrorists succeed and follow us home.
 

Soapweed

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Cal said:
There are so many ways for the left to tell us that they want to surrender and let the terrorists succeed and follow us home.

How do you respond to a poll that has two wrong answers? :???: :?

Leave it to the lefties to louse it up.
 

quickdraw

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Over 250 looks at the poll and less than 10 votes? Really shows how much anyone really cares about polls :roll: :roll: :roll:
I didn't even bother voting because the poll is skewed to the way the pollster wants to portray the view!!

Just like 99% of any poll :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
 

Soapweed

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The poll makes about as much sense as the question, "If you were stranded out in the woods, would you rather have (a) a rifle with no bullets, or (b) bullets with no rifle?" :? :roll:

I suppose if you chose the rifle you could use it for a club, or if you chose bullets you could throw them at your intended game. :???: :shock:
 

nonothing

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quickdraw said:
Over 250 looks at the poll and less than 10 votes? Really shows how much anyone really cares about polls :roll: :roll: :roll:
I didn't even bother voting because the poll is skewed to the way the pollster wants to portray the view!!

Just like 99% of any poll :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


It was not that long ago that you mr quick draw,started a poll..... :???:
 

nonothing

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Soapweed said:
The poll makes about as much sense as the question, "If you were stranded out in the woods, would you rather have (a) a rifle with no bullets, or (b) bullets with no rifle?" :? :roll:

I suppose if you chose the rifle you could use it for a club, or if you chose bullets you could throw them at your intended game. :???: :shock:

ok i pick(b) bullets with no rifle....i can use the powder inside the bullet to start a fire.then build a trap to catch a varmint or two and then cook a nice dinner..So the bullet can feed me plus keep me warm till help arrives.. :wink: :D


Soapweed i am going a little off topic but this reminded me of a tv show we get here in Canada,maybe you have seen it too in usa.It is called survivor man.This guy goes into the wild with nothing but his cameras and films his survival off of just the land that surrounds him..It is an interesting watch if you get the chance..
 
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McCain Raps Congress for Bridge Collapse
NewsMax.com Wires
Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007


ANKENY, Iowa -- Republican John McCain said Saturday that Congress could share in the blame for the Minnesota bridge collapse because lawmakers diverted billions of dollars in transportation money from road work to pet projects.

"I think perhaps you can make the argument that part of the responsibility lies with the Congress of the United States," the Arizona senator said.

McCain said Congress spent roughly $20 billion on special-interest projects when it approved a new highway bill, signed into law by President Bush.

"We spent approximately $20 billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects," said McCain. "Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges around the country. Maybe the 200,000 people who cross that bridge every day would have been safer than spending $233 million of your tax dollars on a bridge in Alaska to an island with 50 people on it."

McCain spoke during a town hall-style meeting with activists, saying he was angered not just by Congress wasting money on special projects, but also by it approving reform packages he labeled a sham.

"I'm angry today because we just had a chance to reform this process in Washington and we punted," said McCain. "We pushed off on the American people a joke and a sham in the name of earmark reform."

The term "earmark" refers to projects favored by individual lawmakers that are inserted into larger spending packages, often winning approval without debate.

Meeting with reporters after his session, McCain deflected questions about whether the bridge collapse could have been avoided if more had been spent on safety and inspections.

"The tragedy of the bridge over the Mississippi River is one that I don't know if it could have been avoided or not," McCain said. "Clearly inspections are needed of bridges and that's why the Department of Transportation has ordered them."

In the wake of the deadly collapse, federal transportation officials and those in many states have stepped up their inspections of bridges of a similar design to the one that collapsed into the Mississippi River.

The Senate has overwhelmingly approved legislation backers said is aimed at reforming the process of individual lawmakers slipping special projects into spending packages, but McCain dismissed that effort.

"We just completed a joke and a sham on the American people with pretended reform that we just passed," said McCain. "It does not attack seriously the earmark."


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/4/151348.shtml?s=lh
 

schnurrbart

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Mike said:
How much of that $600 million do you think will come back here?

$600 million is a drop in the bucket.

Just our military pay is over $45 million per day.

I have a solution for that. Just bring our soldiers home and that $45M/day would be cut by about 75% as most of those folks would go back to their civilian job and would only draw 4 days pay a month. Plus they wouldn't shot at!
 

Jinglebob

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schnurrbart said:
Mike said:
How much of that $600 million do you think will come back here?

$600 million is a drop in the bucket.

Just our military pay is over $45 million per day.

I have a solution for that. Just bring our soldiers home and that $45M/day would be cut by about 75% as most of those folks would go back to their civilian job and would only draw 4 days pay a month. Plus they wouldn't shot at!

Anb then they would help to cause the coming recession.

Better to fight them over there than here.
 

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