Uh, more like tons of money going to state gov't employees so they can retire in their early 50s and double-dip...and tons more going to handout programs to legals and illegals alike. And while we're at it, let's give Nazi Pelozi $28K a month or so for rent and fly her around in private jets while she lambasts "the rich." But you buy into the class warfare garbage like a good Obama-drone.
Lets face it it's just another mighty empire that has beaten itself to death over Afghanistan. First the Brits, then the Soviets and now the US. If Bush/Obama and co had paid more attention in their history classes they mighta seen it coming ?
I agree. USA should learn from Russia and stop/end their military operations in Afghanistan and bring back all their soldiers back to USA. If Russia could not win in Afghanistan so will USA not win in Afghanistan. I had read some media reports that stated Osama bin laden as saying "Their goal is to bankrupt USA by forcing USA to fight in Afghanistan".
I see they are right now debating whether or not to extend the Bush tax cuts to the middle class. This lunacy shows the inherent weakness of democracy. The politicians don't feel able to mention the fact that the country is paying off huge debts and not in any position to give away even more money. This could be the very real death of capitalism and democracy as we knew it.
The greatest massacre of British soldiers in the history of the British empire happened in Afghanistan. "Slaughter in the Mountain Passes A magazine based in Boston, the North American Review, published a remarkably extensive and timely account titled âThe English in Afghanistanâ six months later, in July 1842. It contained this vivid description (some antiquated spellings have been left intact): On the 6th of January, 1842, the Caboul forces commenced their retreat through the dismal pass, destined to be their grave. On the third day they were attacked by the mountaineers from all points, and a fearful slaughter ensued⦠The troops kept on, and awful scenes ensued. Without food, mangled and cut to pieces, each one caring only for himself, all subordination had fled; and the soldiers of the forty-fourth English regiment are reported to have knocked down their officers with the butts of their muskets. On the 13th of January, just seven days after the retreat commenced, one man, bloody and torn, mounted on a miserable pony, and pursued by horsemen, was seen riding furiously across the plains to Jellalabad. That was Dr. Brydon, the sole person to tell the tale of the passage of Khourd Caboul. More than 16,000 people had set out on the retreat from Kabul, and in the end only one man, Dr. William Brydon, a British Army surgeon, had made it alive to Jalalabad. The garrison there lit signal fires and sounded bugles to guide other British survivors to safety, but after several days they realized that Brydon would be the only one. It was believed the Afghans let him live so he could tell the grisly story. "
The lunacy is that they're not abolishing TARP/stimulus before they even talk about tax cuts. It has been nothing but a huge waste of taxpayers resources to fund pork and worthless politically-motivated projects. It would be infinitely better for the wealthy to spend money, hire more workers and save/invest in capital markets (i.e., keep tax cuts) than rob taxpayers/future generations to fund studies on washing genitalia in Africa or creating 55 jobs for $111 million in CA (i.e., spendulous).
The declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm