addicted to the iraq war

[yeahwho]

we would like to withdrawal, it would be nice to pull out and concentrate on other purchases for security than what the $400+ billion dollars we're spending killing over "there" can buy us "here".

The democrats are curiously weak on withdrawals (it's painful). The president, he's in over his head completely hooked on the military industrial complex rush.

The media is wondering what other addiction would replace such a huge monkey on our back.

The oil corporations neurons of the hypothalamus are flowing with endorphinal cash-flow.

We're fucking strungout and every conceivable act of logic has been hammered by denial nationwide.

How's your buzz? I'm having the worst trip of my life.

[Bob]

we would like to withdrawal, it would be nice to pull out and concentrate on other purchases for security than what the $400+ billion dollars we're spending killing over "there" can buy us "here".


you know i've started wondering about this. i mean you hear these figures about war expenses, wars cost so damn much money, it's like the money that gets spent on one cruise missile can send the state of california to college, that kind of thing

but what i don't get is, why are things domestically not all that much different than they've been when we weren't at war? i mean i know the defense budget has always been bloated but like you said, the iraq war's cost $400 billionish dollars, that's a sort of standard high-tech war budget...so what were we doing with that money in the years where we weren't at war? i mean, i know things are "different" now, but they still don't feel $400 billion dollars worth of different. what were we doing with the money when we were at peace? saving it for iraq? i dunno, i don't get it. the numbers get to a point where they're just incomprehensible. i didn't even know we had that much money. i can't even count that high

this post probably doesn't make a lot of sense i'm a little drunk i'll try again tomorrow but still, you think we could have at least had universal health care by now

[Schmeltz]

Well that's the thing, Bob - your government didn't actually have that money when you weren't at war, so to pay for this one they've had to borrow, to the point where at the end of last year total US federal debt was almost nine trillion dollars, nearly half of which is owned by foreign governments or institutions, and is apparently projected to reach ten trillion in the next two years.

But that's alright, because Ronnie Raygun taught us that deficits don't matter!

[Bob]

Well that's the thing, Bob - your government didn't actually have that money when you weren't at war, so to pay for this one they've had to borrow, to the point where at the end of last year total US federal debt was almost nine trillion dollars, nearly half of which is owned by foreign governments or institutions, and is apparently projected to reach ten trillion in the next two years.

But that's alright, because Ronnie Raygun taught us that deficits don't matter!

clearly i did not study economics in college

i wonder if politicians take into account the fact that they'll be out of office when it comes time to repay the debt (does that time ever actually come? again, didn't study economics) when they decide to create a bagillion dollar deficit. if i were a crooked politician, i bet i would

[yeahwho]

clearly i did not study economics in college

i wonder if politicians take into account the fact that they'll be out of office when it comes time to repay the debt (does that time ever actually come? again, didn't study economics) when they decide to create a bagillion dollar deficit. if i were a crooked politician, i bet i would

I hope this link (http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-printpage.html?res=9B00E2D61F3CF931A2575BC0A9629C8 B63)works. A review and excerpt from the book "Running on Empty" While the Politicians Fiddle, America Goes Broke.

''this administration and the Republican Congress have presided over the biggest, most reckless deterioration of America's finances in history.''