Stimulus Cost More Than Iraq War

The numbers are in. According to the CBO the amount being spent in the worthless stimulus bill is more than that spent for the entire Iraq war.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/o...am-cost-more-than-the-Iraq-war-101302919.html

 

So do you think its a good idea to spend hundreds of billions of dollars destroying and rebuilding other countries, or do you think we should spend that money building up our own infrastructure?

5yr

 

You know, the wisdom of invading Iraq can be debated all day long. I'm just pointing out the fact that our government wasted more money on the stimulus bill than going to war in Iraq. And, yes, the vast majority of the money was wasted imo.

 

The article also points out that more money was spent on Medicare, do you think that was wasted as well?

 

nice stats
never mention what we actually 'paid' to blow shit up in Iraq
Here is the url: http://costofwar.com/
$743B

given the choice, I would spend that money domestically doing 'anything' rather than spend it blowing up shit in Iraq

 

With the war money, we blew shit up in other countries and destroyed networks of terrorists that wanted to blow shit up here.


With the stimulus money, we rebuilt companies that blew shit up here(economically), so they could continue to blow shit up(economically) sometime later in the future.

Kind of tough to see which was the better choice.

 

Both are bad. And if you call the ridiculous pork paid for by the stimulus "infrastructure," I'd hate to think what you consider gov't waste.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_fraud

 

yeap, lots of those crawling around in the rubble in Iraq

 

Exactly. Lots of fraud in Medicare and Social Security as well--it's gamed by many people on the "disability" side as well as young women who move in with SS sugar daddies in their late 60s.