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2007-11-14 Home Front: Politix

War costs could total $1.6 trillion by 2009, ~~lopsided~~ panel estimates

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Posted by gorb 2007-11-14 04:27|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Ya know, I heard this on the radio yesterday morning, but didn't think the article would be this long.

Whaddaya mean, the yellow highlighted stuff wasn't part of the original article? It's the best part!

Schumer, you'll remember, was the guy who told Harry the war would lead to more Democratic seats.

Besides, as someone here observed weeks ago, the Dems are setting up for their next position: Even if we win the war, it cost too much.

Posted by Bobby 2007-11-14 06:23|| 2007-11-14 06:23|| Front Page Top

#2 "We cannot afford this war -- $12 billion dollars a month?" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said. "We just can't. We can't continue."

Just a weak attempt to dilute Ms. Clinton's blunder: I have lots of Ideas. America can't afford them all.

Donks will eat this up because it prevents the GOP from using the bumper sticker, "America can't afford my ideas" or somesuch. But the basic problem that the Donks have is that the war against an Islamic Caliphate is real. Donks are all about grasping, clawing for power. The average voter is about securing a good life for themselves. Bad match.

Posted by Zebulon Grort2835 2007-11-14 06:38|| 2007-11-14 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey Harry and Chuck, how about seizing the oil fields and cutting off a bunch of beturbanned heads? Then we can make a PROFIT and your mob buddies can even weasel in and get a cut.

Posted by ed 2007-11-14 07:36|| 2007-11-14 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Outstanding commentary, gorb - laughed my a** off, though that was combined with the usual disbelief and discouragement that such illiterate (from many angles) idiocy can be spouted in public without humliation of the spouter. My exposure to MSM or NPR-like "news" sources is astoundingly tiny (takes some work), but I can just imagine how this was flogged by what one radio host aptly calls the media wing of the Donk party.

Sadly, though, no surprise. Economics, logic, facts, perspective, and serious adult analysis are not the strengths of the current Donk party. That they even exist as a national party is spectacular testimony to the mediocrity of most of the GOP.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-11-14 08:49|| 2007-11-14 08:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Love the comments.

Typical dhimocrat though. Weasel for more power, money and screen time while fucking the average middle class voter. Thanks guys. Really.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-14 10:45|| 2007-11-14 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 committee calculated the average cost of both wars for a family of four would be $20,900 from 2002 to 2008. The cost for a family of four would go up to $46,400 from 2002 to 2017

Let's do the arithmetic aloud, shall we? (All corrections gratefully accepted).

2006 - 2002 = 5 years, if we include both numbers as full years, and count on my fingers

$20,900 taxes / 5 = $4,180/year taxes

2017 - 2002 = 16 years, again including both end years and counting on my fingers

16 years x $4,180/year [2002-2006 rate] taxes = $66,80 according to my favourite calculator... considerably more than the congressional committee's estimate.

Hey, look at that: the Long War is a bargain!!

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-14 12:37|| 2007-11-14 12:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Quantity discount. Always buy in bulk.

Posted by One Eyed Gluger9182 2007-11-14 12:39|| 2007-11-14 12:39|| Front Page Top

#8 IHT > ECONOMIC SENSE: US TURMOIL HAS A BRIGHT SIDE.

ALso from IHT.com > OBAMA AND THE PLANET; + HOT AIR > GUILIANI REP: RUDY WILL BE FIRST JEWISH PRESIDENT; + YAHOO > OVER 90% OF AMERS WOULD WELCOME BILL CLINTON BACK TO WHITE HOUSE + ONLY SIX PERCENT OF AMERS AGAINST US HAVING A WOMAN PRESIDENT. *IOW, World [including MAHICO/MEXICO] would like to see a MINORITY PERSONAGE AS US PRESIDENT - Females, Non-Euro/Nordic descent, DARKER THE SKIN THE BETTER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-14 23:38|| 2007-11-14 23:38|| Front Page Top

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