What if we called money for the Iraq war "pork" and money for America "domestic" aid?

Answer 1

LOL I love this question. Which is more useful a bridge to nowhere in alaska or a bridge the will get blown up in Iraq?? Well seriously what good is the infrastructure we are building in that Civil War zone?? I would rather have peanut storage in the US than a road built in Iraq.

Answer 2

it would be inaccurate.

Pork are nothing more than bribes that benefits only a tiny group of people and has no ultimate value.

Supporting the war will help a lot of people and will ultimately have a benefit the the region and the US.

you want to have domestic aid? try loosening up on the environmental laws that are forcing people like the shrimp farmers in to financial distress, that would make it easier to work and earn a profit. then we would not need to bribe politicians with subsidies for the shrimp farmers and the money can go where it is needed.

Answer 3

Iraq war funds are filled with pork and should be labeled accordingly. But it would be a mistake to call domestic pork anything else.

How about we get someone who will list all members congress pork projects? AND hold them accountable?

Answer 4

well, we're not gettin much domestic aid, but i like the pork barrel reference. much of the pork is being transferred directly into the pockets of the vice presidents business partners.

Answer 5

then you would truly have emboldened the screwed up sense of priorities and logic that makes a present day liberal extremist what they are today. and while were at it..why dont we label bill clinton as an award winning president despite MASSIVE evidence to the contrary.

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

my point is this....al qaeda and jihad is NOT a game or a political boon for the democrats depsite what the pelosi/reid regime want you to believe. its not a poltical fantasy or one of those ridiculously labled mean spirited republican conspiracies ms. clinton would have you believe. al qaeda is not going away despite clinton ignoring them for eight years and harry reid wanting to welcome them to the us with open arms after the ridiculous flip flop recently on troop funding. theyre real, deadly and want the west just as dead as saddam wanted the kurds when he was exterminating them.

The war on terrorism isnt going away because you want it to and its not a poltical photo op for opportunistic extremists like ms. pelosi. what it...IS is a real threat against the united states that few people understand and know how to deal with and burying your head in the sand and villifying bush will do nothing to make our shores safer from the type of attack that destroyed the world trade center.
As a survivor of wtc in manhattan, it particularly disgusts me that liberals like you, can dismiss a real attempt to defend this country as bush folly or insinuate that its not needed.
lets look at a few facts
uss cole bombing...clinton...no response
african embassy bombings...clinton...no response
at least six bonafide chances to capture or kill bin laden with the help of sudan...clinton...no response
first wtc...clinton...no response
second wtc...bush RESPONSE. and no known successfull attack on domestic soil or us possesion outside iraq since...
ARE YOU SEEING A PARALLEL HERE???
again, al qaeda wants you dead, they dont care about your poliitics..they just want to kill you, and the sad part about it is if you and the pelosi reid regime dont wake up soon the problems are only just beginning and are guaranteed to get worse.

Answer 6

You'd sound like and idiot liberal who supports gays, terrorists, and the declice of American society into a pagan society.

Answer 7

Because it's not. You want to build a peanut warehouse go do it and live in it. I would prefer to see the troops and their families get paid.

Answer 8

That's precisely how they SHOULD be labeled!