Can we afford war in Iraq much longer , with all the corruption , fraud , no oversight and bad bookkeeping?

Question

The cost keep adding up .
Will Congress investigate

The cost of the War in Iraq to American Taxpayer is $ 195 million per day .

http://zfacts.com/p/447.html

Answer 1

The cost of the Iraq war is relatively inexpensive. You've posed a completely incorrect statement of the case to say that there is no oversight and "bad book keeping" (a cartoonishly simplistic characterization of the complexity of monitoring those funds). There is a huge amount of oversight; congressional oversight. When ever there is a huge amount of money being pured into something, it is inevitable that there will be discrepancy.

You are, however, correct to say that the costs keep adding up, but nothing that the U.S. economy can't easily handle.

Answer 2

With the standard of affordability the you have provided, here is a small list of some of our "vital" Government programs that would have to 86'ed:

Small Business Administration
Social Security Administration
Federal Aviation Administration
WIC and Food Stamps
Amtrak
Medicaid
Medicare
Federal Highway Administration
National Park Service
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Reserve System

...there are plenty more.

The costs do keep adding up. All for government programs that really didn't (and some still don't) have much in the way of constitutional justification.

The military has its basis in the Constitution: the defense of the country. All this other stuff came later, when politicians wanted to show you what they could do with your money.

Will Congress investigate itself for this obvious misappropriation of funds dwarfing even the military's total take, not just for Iraq operations?

You know the answer to that one.


Darth Serious

Answer 3

Can we afford the semi-socialised medical care we have in the US much longer, with all the corruption, fraud, no oversight and bad bookkeeping?

The costs are astronomical and keep adding up.
Will Congress ever figure out that a 20 year old who hasn't paid into the system shouldn't be getting elective surgeries??

Answer 4

Of course we can. The federal government will just keep printing money to pay for the 'off budget' expenses of the war. Noone realizes that the value of the dollars they spend has decreased, although this practice has cut the value of a dollar in half over the last 15 years or so. It is the most egregious tax on Americans, because few realize it is happening.

Answer 5

we can afford the war in Iraq with all its' flaws longer than we can afford Social Security with all the corruption, fraud, no oversight and bad bookkeeping that goes along with it.

The costs keep adding up.

Will Congress EVER investigate?

Answer 6

Corruption, fraud, no oversight, bad bookkeeping,...

Were you talking about the war or Congress?

Answer 7

HELLLL NO the war should end b4 america goes out of buisness

Answer 8

I would love to know where all that money goes to each day, wouldn't you?