Hey Danny! >From what I understand the typical "pork barrel" spending (i.e. earmarks) are >a miniscule part of Congressional spending. The majority of it is currently >war spending and regular budgeting that's been necessary for running our >country--which includes all the interest we paid to other countries to which >were in debt.
As for what we spend in Iraq, I understand we spend the same amount there in 3 weeks as we've spent in all six years in Afghanistan, a country that really was involved in 9/11. (I love talking politics and I've been surprised not to see much of it here. It used to get quite heated when I was here before.) Best regards, Tod ---- Danny Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, I was watching some program last night that said we are > spending 5,000 dollars every second 7 days a week on the IRAQ war. In > addition to that ---the American defecit is costing about a Million Dollars a > Minute JUST FOR THE INTEREST PAYMENT ONLY ! Why can't our government cut > back for a while and PAY down some on that defecit so a large part of our tax > money don't go to DEFECIT INTEREST payments ?? Man if we ran OUR households > in this way---------we would all be bankrupt. It's really sad the shape we > are getting into--------- We all must balance our checkbooks or be > homeless........ Do any of you think or worry about our future with the > needless pork and waste our congress keeps approving??? I know I do. > Dan H.
