total of $448 billion spent on the war already... we are going to be a 3rd world soon...?

Question

If you look around ppl are struggling in america i think... just because you live on credit doesnt mean you have money...and thats what everyone is doing....if everyone paid there bills completely they would be -negative money would have no home, car or clothes on there back what is life coming too...for the US.

Bush is so backwards.

Answer 1

Your right ,, Iraq should pay us back thru oil revenues for what we did for them.

Answer 2

Questioner, source attribution or at least a coherent argument would be nice and get you a whole lot less abuse. You sound like a well-intentioned person, so here's something to consider:

(1) The Federal government spent $2.5 trillion last year. While you may consider defense expenditure to be excessive, consider this: Money taken to feed the military machine must come from social expenditures, right? So ipso facto, Social Security and Medicare must suffer, and that impacts the people. After all, spending money to buy a tank doesn't make anyone poor, per se; it provides for hundreds of jobs. Where it leaves the people "struggling in america[sic]" is if those funds came straight out of social welfare programs, thus depriving the poor and old people.

(2) Consider this: The Clinton defense budget was historically around $280 billion or so. That's how he partly funded that budget surplus intended to reduce the national debt. The current budget under Bush is in the neighborhood of $400 billion, with emergency funds pushing it to perhaps another $80 billion or so per year. Thus, being generous, let's say that the $200 billion difference, computated from late 2001 to late 2006, means that around $1.2 trillion dollars got sucked away from social programs, and that's what makes ordinary Americans poor.

(3) Take a look at this:
http://www.heritage.org/research/budget/em1004.cfm

In 2005, unfunded Social Security and Medical obligations were at a total of $36 TRILLION. Counting all the other public debt, the national debt stands at a magnificient $46 TRILLION. How much actual impact do you think expenditures on the War on Terror, given an increase of $200 billion per year over Clinton levels, really do have on something like that?

You're trying to find linkage between what you don't like to see on the news (war) and what you think that war is causing (poverty) when there's no causal relationship between the two. The current administration isn't FORCING people to not save; they choose to do so. Countries with a MUCH higher cost of living such as Norway and Japan save far more per capita than Americans. The problems America faces today are far, far greater than the ramifications of war.

Before you state anyone is backwards, you might want to adjust your perspective a bit. Really. While I thought the "if everyone paid their bills completely there would be negative money" was rather funny for a few seconds, it betrays a complete lack of understanding on how liquid capital works.

Please, really, do some homework before you post something like this. You apparently had good intentions, but they can't be found underneath the mess you've made of your question. Try again.

Answer 3

I'm living pretty well. Have nice cars, a home, toys for the weekends. I don't live off of credit. I pay what bills I have with no worries. The problem is with people who live outside their means to impress other people. Those are the idiots who are having a hard time. If you can't afford it don't buy it. Save some money instead of blowing it on a new car or something that will depreciate the moment you buy it. Use your head and invest. Then you won't have to worry about if you will have enough money to eat or have shelter.

Oh yeah stop complaining too, it is very unproductive.

Answer 4

Lmao..Are you a complete retard?

America isnt going to become a 3rd world country, especially from $448 Billion..Thats pcoket change for the government.They get 100s of billions of dollars a day

Answer 5

Yes soon we will be living in mud huts its just horrible out there the economy is destroyed, I can`t buy spinach, there is no gas to put in the car I don`t have, there is nothing to buy, I can`t freely talk on the phone to terrorist overseas, people are disappearing off the streets and sent to camps in Vermont, I have no job, I can`t pay my bills, my stocks have all gone bust. Pollution is so bad I can`t see the sun. Global warming has killed all the trees and it is so hot I can`t go outside.
Damn That Bush! He made me go in debt with my credit card too.

Answer 6

Well, I'm not exactly the biggest fan of the Iraq War or Dubya, but you have to realize that all of this money is merely the expense of the United States government to private companies. It's not like we're taking a half-trillion dollars and giving it to Iraq. Most of that money (but not all of it) goes back into American industries and supports the American economy. But I would certainly agree that it's probably not the most effective use of taxpayer dollars.

Answer 7

And yet the percentage of our GDP spent on the war is less now than at any other time in our nation's history, except the first Gulf War.

Here's a link to the article:

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_buzzcharts/buzzcharts200601230854.asp

Answer 8

Speak for yourself. My stocks are rockin, I have 3 times the liquid assets I had before Bush got in. It's a world economy, the ones liberals and dems cried for in the 70's. Now we have it and they cry again. No pleasing the loser of the world.

Answer 9

We are not going to ever be a 3rd world country, I don't know where you live but am living comfortably. Even poor people get by. It might not be easy or in the best conditions, but they get by.

2pac said it best-"And though we had it rough, we always had enough"

Answer 10

You better start scrounging for food rather than bitching about the war.