Studies: Iraq costs US $12B per month

Here's a good Idea. Let's stop spending billions of dollars in Iraq and invest it in our OWN COUNTRY. A recent study shows that the U.S. is spending 12B a MONTH on George's War. The damage this does to our economy is unbelievable. This war in Iraq, the one GWB lied us into, is going to cost us more than the Vietnam War which lasted 12 years. Let's not even mention the human cost, or the cost of our standing in the world community, and yes that does mean something because people who hate us tend to do really bad things to us. But just imagine what it might do for our economy and our country to stop spending money on the military industrial complex, which doesn't make any contributions to our infrastructure, and spent it instead on jobs programs. You know, projects to rebuild our roads, put back commuter rails and continental rail systems, (re)build bridges and create renewable power sources. This would create jobs, teach real job skills to people who need it and rebuild our infrastructure. Folks, the New Deal worked. Ronnie Reagan and the idiots who have followed him have bought into the conservative tripe that government can't do things well. That's just not true. It is true that government should leave us alone for a lot of stuff but if government can send money to Iraq, and banks, and corporations selling god knows what, why can't government do other things. Like jobs programs? National Healthcare? Projects to rebuild our own national infrastructure? Cynthia Tucker is right on in this opinion piece. I just wish more people felt the same way.

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