Well! We are up to $12 billion a day in Iraq. A bill now before the House is asking for $465 billion more for 2008. The states are clamoring to raise more revenue. Politicians always spend way more than they take in. So they have to figure out all kinds of weird and corrupt ways to raise money.
Breaking it down again, the cost of the war so far is $441,962,258,000. That's $6,729,532,000 so far for the state of Indiana. Yes, booby, that's Billions with a capital B. Breaking it down to cities, the closest one listed is South Bend, whose cost in the war is, at this point, $93,098,053. So adjusting for size, I would imagine Warsaw's cost of the war would be perhaps between 5 and 10 million. If you would like to check my figures, go to NationalPriorities.org
Based on national figures, 7,659,302 school teachers could've been hired for one year based on the debt piled up in Iraq. Please note this debt is purely for Iraq, not supporting the 700 military bases around the world. If you want Empire, you have to pay for it.
Now do you begin to understand what I'm telling you about your politicians? Why a Lugar was all for the war and voted for every appropriation, and now that he is becoming a little bit worried about the next election, he suddenly has a little teeny bit of change of heart, at least on paper. If the electorate were smarter, Lugar would be retired to work for some lobbying outfit like most retired politicians do. They make fortunes promoting dictators around the world.
Lugar and the rest knew this war was a sham when he voted to go into it. There was plenty of evidence available way before little Bush decided to become Napoleon. But you voters keep letting these people off the hook because of party politics. Or maybe you're a Christian Zionist that will do anything to protect Israel. Or you've got a lot of stock in an oil company.
It's no wonder when you listen to the garbage that is on the radio that passes as news. We get plenty of preachers, plenty of sports, plenty of morons like Beckster or a Scumbugh. PBS radio is limp-wristed and has weak signal. FM is filled with mindless sounds that pass as music. So the electorate gets what it deserves, and very soon they're going to be awakened out of their slumber into the real world. Hang on, it's going to be a hell of a ride and its going to be all downhill!
