Posted on 02/26/2006 10:20:25 AM PST by churchillbuff
Some big bills are about to come due for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and rebuilding along the Gulf Coast.
A Senate G-O-P aide says President Bush is set to request 70 (B) billion dollars in special funding for the two wars.
And the official says Bush will seek another 18 (B) billion dollars for rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That number's in addition to the 85 (B) billion already committed to the Gulf Coast reconstruction.
Bush is the biggest spender in history. Medicaire boondoggle. Iraq boondoggle. Federalizing of education. He spends and spends -- and still the Democrats denounce him. "Moderate" Republicans like Bush never seem to learn that they can spend like Democrats but the liberals will hate them anyway. All they're accomplishing is making life harder for the middle class taxpayers who have to pay the bill.
Yeah but a Democrat would have spent $100 billion! Looks like the WHINE ALL the time, I HATE BUSH choir has SHOWED UP today! We need to support Bush or else the Democrat BOGEYMAN is going to get you! < /MNJohnnie >
I agree. I wonder how much of the money is for Islamic junk like rebuilding the Golden Mosque.
Besides spending billions, Presidente Bush is saddling us taxpayers with additional debt to support, educate and give medical care to millions of illegal aliens who have entered the USA on his watch. Our pockets are being picked at both ends...
Bush's ownership society and reforming the tax code are dead in the water. Gov't continues to become bigger and more unconstitutional.
I agree. I wonder how much of the money is for Islamic junk like rebuilding the Golden Mosque.
LOL!!!
Why not a few billion $$ for our own border security and immigration, too impractical and expensive?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522382/posts
Money well spent...
Well you don't want to complain. The article by William F. Buckley dared to bring up some concerns and he's thrown under the bus here to be replaced by 'historian' Vic Hansen as a supposed authority.
You're right though. The spending continues to grow. Eventually it has to top 1 trillion. Will that be the point fiscal 'conservatives' start to complain?
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Not a dime more until the Iraqis settle down and play nice!
I have a liberal friend who says she feels privileged to pay taxes because the "money is well spent". I stopped trying to point out all the waste, she won't listen. Guess it wouldn't be any use trying with you, either. Just read the news about Iraq. Anyone with an open mind - most recently, Bill Buckley - has to admit the invasion didn't accomplish what we were promised. And it wasn't necessary because Iraq, a fifth world power with no WMDs, was no threat to us.
On the domestic front, Medicaire and Education programs are straight from the Ted Kennedy playbook.
And all this is off budget, so it doesn't get counted in the 400+ billion deficit we run up per year. This war is definitely NOT worth what we are spending for it. If we were at least getting cheap oil, the administration might make a case for this grotesque war expenditure, but it has only served to jack up oil prices by $25/bbl. costing everyone in the nation even more money. It's a true lose-lose situation and conservatives in Congress ought to pull the plug on it.
He was an invasion supporter who didn't predict ANY of the mess we've got now. He's no "authority,"
Chamberlain Buff, Who passed the two largest tax cuts in US History? Once again you are DESPERATELY flailing around for anything to try an justify your idiotic Neo-Isolationist positions. Just how much do you suppose a second 9-11 style attack would cost us? Sorry if the rest of us understand that National Security is THE job of the Feds so it is one of the FEW things they SHOULD be spending money on.
BINGO! It's no coincidence that we've had a 25 percent increase in gasoline prices since the Iraq invasion. Call it the "Iraq war tax." Everybody's paying it, but the media is ignoring the cause. The neocon agenda is saddling us with higher taxes for a needless war. And still there are many people - on this forum in particular - who are cheering, robot-like, as they and their families are being financially squeezed by this insane policy.
Bush deserves some of the blame. He could have vetoed some spending bills to force reductions. The Congress, Republicans and Democrats both resist spending cuts. What every happened to the Balanced Budget Amendment?
Around $255 billion as of last October, according to The Congressional Research Service
I applauded that. But it wasn't enough - taxes are still much higher than before Bush Sr. did away with Reagan's tax cuts. And the Alternative Minimum Tax threatens to wipe it all out anyway. Bottom line: Government needs your money, and your kids' money, and your parents' money. They need it for domestic boondoggles and for a foreign war that was never necessary for US security (in other words, just another government boondoggle).
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