Monday, September 06, 2010
Labor Day
Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending on Public Works
Imagine the headline "Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending on war in Afghanistan." Think he'd line up plenty of Repug votes for it?
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Imagine the headline "Obama to Call for $50 Billion Spending on war in Afghanistan." Think he'd line up plenty of Repug votes for it?
In fiscal 2011, Afghanistan is projected to cost $117 billion, Iraq $46 billion. To date, Pentagon spending in Iraq has reached $620 billion, compared with $190 billion in Afghanistan.Who benefits from a permanent state of war, financed with borrowed money?
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, in the news
