Money for bombs, not bums
Jason Chaffetz wrote a post for CNN. Do you see the paradox?:
"This week, House Republicans met with President Obama and debated the stimulus bill. I voted against it. Our national debt has increased an average of $2.8 billion per day since January 2007. We must cut spending, not increase spending, for the long-term health of our economy."
Republicans constantly preach about cutting spending, and yet there is no debate as far as stemming the flow of funds to the military-industrial complex from either party.
Chaffetz says our national debt increases $2.8 billion per day. Yet $720,000,000,000 of that, 25% is from the Iraq war alone. 40% of every tax dollar goes towards war. War is the major cause of our national debt.
Until cutting back war spending enters the discussion, any Republican spiel about less spending is so much political fluff.
If we do not end our warmongering, we will bankrupt ourselves spiritually, and the spirit will no longer strive with us.
"This week, House Republicans met with President Obama and debated the stimulus bill. I voted against it. Our national debt has increased an average of $2.8 billion per day since January 2007. We must cut spending, not increase spending, for the long-term health of our economy."
Republicans constantly preach about cutting spending, and yet there is no debate as far as stemming the flow of funds to the military-industrial complex from either party.
Chaffetz says our national debt increases $2.8 billion per day. Yet $720,000,000,000 of that, 25% is from the Iraq war alone. 40% of every tax dollar goes towards war. War is the major cause of our national debt.Until cutting back war spending enters the discussion, any Republican spiel about less spending is so much political fluff.
If we do not end our warmongering, we will bankrupt ourselves spiritually, and the spirit will no longer strive with us.
Thanks for saying it. They leave one of the real issues entirely out of the public discourse.
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