Brother, Can You Spare $8,000?

The Congressional Budget Office has released their estimates for the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  The verdict:  By the time it’s over, it will have cost us $2.4 trillion (that’s $2,400,000,000,000).  Numbers so big are hard to get one’s head around so how about this:  $2.4 trillion is $8,000 from every man, woman and child in America.  I don’t know about you, but I could use an extra $8,000.  With $8,000 I could pay off my car and still have enough left over to cover rent for just over a year!

Of course, taxes aren’t being paid by every man, woman and child in America, which begs the question: just how much are YOU paying for this war?  Are you getting your money’s worth?

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One Response to “Brother, Can You Spare $8,000?”

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   October 26th, 2007 at 9:50 am
   Southern Beale says:
   

   just how much are YOU paying for this war? Are you getting your money’s worth?

   A question for which there is no answer.

   I had a plumber over to my house the other day and we were chatting. The war came up in the conversation, and I didn’t let him know where I stood, but he jumped in and said, “Oh, it’s about an oil pipeline. You know that, right?” And he proceded to outline for me the route of the pipeline, and how U.S. military bases are being built all along the pipeline’s route to protect it.

   I’d heard this before but I didn’t know that this information had filtered out beyond the “America-hating moonbat left” into the general poplace. This was my plumber. Blue collar guy, lives out in Rutherford County. Supposed to be the typical meat-and-potatoes kinda of GOP voter, the “base.” Not exactly the “East Coast liberal elite.” He knows the war is a fraud, and he knows how and why it’s a fraud, and he’s pissed off.

   So I’d say, in general, the GOP is toast on this issue.