that assumes the budget contains good numbers. I was listening yesterday to a report by an investigative journalist to the effect that the US is increasingly using private contractors in Iraq, and that they were also used in Katrina. The reporter, whose presentation in Albuquerque was cancelled due to a Congressional subpeona, said that the contractors are paid $350 per day each, but billed for at $1000 per day.
The very interesting corollary is that at that profit margin the company has every interest in making sure the war goes on forever. On 5/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The money issue is surprisingly not very valid. I was bent about all > the military spending to support the war. Right now it is costing us > about $8 billion. That's roughly $26.00 per person in additional > spending. Subtract out the normal military budget. not a huge chuck of > change. Of course that is amortized over the entire population. The > poor pay very little taxes. The rich by and large seem to avoid taxes. > So I guess that leaves the middle class working folks like programmers. > Yeah wait a minute.... > > Gruss Gott wrote: > >> RoMunn wrote: > >> I agree that we need to help them stabilize their country before we leave. > >> > >> > > > > Sure that'd be great given unlimited funds, but we ain't got 'em so > > there's no point in being here. The National Guard is for our > > nation, not Iraq's. I rather they be in Kansas. > > > > And, if we do want to do random acts of policy, let's go to Darfur. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234398 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
