bush and the White House has lied about the war. Now it costs more than $300 BILLION DOLLARS. Who do you think will pay for it? Not the rich and not those who sent us to war...
2006-10-26 18:27:18 · 15 answers · asked by linus_van_pelt68 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
OwNaGeR: Pocket change? Try telling the poor adults and children, mentally ill, senior citizens, and those who are making it day by day THAT IS POCKET CHANGE?!?!
2006-10-26 18:50:03 · update #1
Who else ? Us Suckers. Derived from Lower Class and Middle Class Mainstream society. We will all be economically defunct, deficient, maimed, ruined, harmed, and broke and the Rich will we laughing with Glee. I personally think that Bush and his elite think they are above the law and ourConstitution. I feel that they should PAY for it all by themselves. We should demand they call a referendum to see who pays for it. Most of us would naturally give Bush and his rich friends the honour of paying for thier fiasco, their miserable failures, their lies. But no, that is but a dream. We the Citizens of America have been suckered into paying for this catastrophe!
2006-10-26 19:41:43 · answer #1 · answered by JC J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, it costs $300 billion on paper, but actually, where is that money going to? It's going to pay the soldiers that are at war right now. Only about $15 Billion is not coming back the the US in some way. That's 5% of the original $300 billion. And the US government has a budget of what? Two trillion dollars? $15 billion is just a small figure. If you're worried about wasting money, worry about wasting money on useless programs such as the Peace Corps.
And you might say "Well it's just adding to our deficit." $15 billion dollars is pocket change to the US government. In a monetary sense, it'd be like worrying about the 50 cents you left in your pocket before you washed your jeans.
In a necessary sense, the $15 billion (and the war) is like paying a bully at school $1 to stop teasing you. The world blames the US for everything. Iraq made a threat to the US, so we retaliated. Were we suppose to sit back and watch DC get nuked? Now that we're in the war, we have to finish it. If not, we'd get blamed from every other country on this planet that we "Backed out" and we "Can't finish anything." Ohh I could see the headlines in England now...
Just think about that.
Oh, and one more thing. Just for you who are asking the question: "What price can you put on a soldiers life?" Well, there is NOT a draft in effect, is there? It was their choice to join the military. They signed up to protect their country, and it's very honorable. With that honor comes responsibility. It's not like we're forcing 18 year olds to go stand infront of an AK-47 and get shot.
I agree, soldiers dying is a bad thing. Anyone dying for no reason is bad thing. But what can you do? Say "No more war."? That's been tried and it's failed. I, too, wish wars would stop, but the world isn't like that.
2006-10-27 01:43:19 · answer #2 · answered by OwNaGeR 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
We are seeing right now that supply-side economics tried for another time under the second Bush administration, the Bush, Jr. administration, is not working. We have a enormous deficit and to parody or to use the phrase of David Stockman, as far as the eye can see. We are going to have to pay the piper at some point. There is going to be a day of reckoning for that deficit particularly as baby boomers mature and have to eventually collect Social Security and Medicare.
2006-10-27 01:28:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Everyone BUT the oil companies. America is paying for it with our hard earned tax dollars and the blood of our loyal military.
Bush and all those fools who got us into this are making the $$$ while we (the working class) pay for it...Hell our great grand children will pay these TWO wars that Bush got us into.
2006-10-27 02:21:15 · answer #4 · answered by lordzander31 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Primarily, the top 5% of taxpayers, that is who is paying. The poor do not pay any taxes so don't imply that they are contributing to paying the bill. Don't forget, the wealthier Americans also pay to support them too. The wealthier Americans are the ones paying for everything dude.
You obviously don't know too much about who pays the bills for this country and how tax law works. Hopefully, you will become wiser as you mature and one day you may actually figure it out.
2006-10-27 02:08:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The poor, the middle class, and the soldiers.
The poor will pay the most because there are more of them, the middle class because they are taxed the highest, and the soldiers because they shed their blood.
The rich will just get richer because of it because of their tax free stocks they buy.
2006-10-27 01:34:56 · answer #6 · answered by J j 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The children of the big fact ignorant dolts that voted for the war.
2006-10-27 01:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by Bleak 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Each and every American citizen plus their childrens' childrens' childrens' children, and maybe further on the line as well.
2006-10-27 01:34:01 · answer #8 · answered by me_worry? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our taxes pay for the war. But before you get your panties in a bunch that's a good thing. We create more jobs, we create more revenue. Look at the historical cost, I know the numbers seem high now, but it is all relative.
2006-10-27 01:32:04 · answer #9 · answered by ffsotus 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Who pays for every war.
2006-10-27 01:33:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋