About $800 for every man, woman and child in the US to pay for Bush's war for the next 18 months

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/241188,CST-NWS-bush03.article

$245 billion more for wars?

February 3, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Keeping troops in Iraq for another year and a half will cost nearly a quarter-trillion dollars -- about $800 for every man, woman and child in the United States -- under the budget President Bush will submit to Congress on Monday.

Bush will ask for $100 billion more for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior Pentagon official said Friday.

At the same time, Bush's budget request will propose cost curbs on Medicare providers.

[A Brand New World]

1. Count me out! I don't believe in contributing to illegal &

immoral wars! (If only it was that simple.)

[brokensymmetry]

2. I wonder what would happen...

if we used that to buy preventive medical care for
every child in America?

Or extra books in every library?

Or an extra 100 (or more) hot meals for everyone
who is poor and can't afford one?

Ah, silly me. How much better to spend it on
killing people. :sarcasm:

[man4allcats]

3. Hey, Dubya!

My $800.00 is up your ass. Stick your head in there and get it. It's where your head is most of the time anyway. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[stillcool]

4. I think we're already a couple of grand...

per in the hole. Time to hit up the generation after the next generation.

[stray cat]

5. Maybe Americans would be more alert if they received a bill

[darkstar7646]

6. That's how much they'll admit to...

So that's another $250B to the deficit and the national debt...

Even if I wasn't certain that something wasn't going to do us all in this year, how much longer before we couldn't do anything economically anyway?? 3 years? 5???