We already spend over a trillion dollars a year at home - just on Social Security and Medicare.
I don't really want that money spent either way, but the war is a one-time cost, whereas domestic taxation and spending, once it gets enacted, is extremely hard to remove, and it becomes a drain on the economy. Take Social Security and Medicare as the prime examples. What started as programs to care for the very elderly has morphed into the single biggest re-distribution of wealth in the history of mankind - a program that takes money out of the pockets of working people and puts it directly into the pockets of retired people. The program is going to go broke, so what is Obama's solution? More taxes! More taxes to the point where anyone who make a decent living will end up with a negative return on the program over their lifetimes. Remember, this is supposed to be a program for everyone, and yet under Obama's proposal, a whole chunk of people would never get back even what they put into it. That isn't fair and it isn't right. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Tony wrote: > id rather spend 1 trillion here on these people than 1 trillion > on a fucking war in iraq. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266145 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
