Monday, April 30, 2007
But for you, only $498 Billion
The cost of Our Dear Embattled Leader's Glorious Legacy in Iraqistan just keeps going up. The $78 Billion in the supplemental bill and the $116 Billion in the regular budget for the 5th year of ODELGLII are starting to add up.
Oh, don't worry about that $78 Billion, ODEL will veto it so the soldiers won't go and waste it.
The combined spending requests would push the total for Iraq to $564 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.At the same time, there are other, better uses for all those bucks.
What could that kind of money buy?Yeah, yeah, I know that those pie in the eye schemes of spending money on people instead of corporations is somehow unAmerican, but it does present a memorable comparison for what is being done with the money from your pocket.
A college education - tuition, fees, room and board at a public university - for about half of the nation's 17 million high-school-age teenagers.
Pre-school for every 3- and 4-year-old in the country for the next eight years.
Oh, don't worry about that $78 Billion, ODEL will veto it so the soldiers won't go and waste it.
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