Is Anyone Else Mad At The Cost For The War In Iraq? When some people here can't afford to keep their home.

Question

Experts say the war will now cost us "the tax payers" in America 2.4 Trillion dollars. Not to mention the loss of dads,brothers,sisters,moms,aunts,uncles,grandparents,friends I know people whom have lost their family members doing all they could to keep us safe. I also know people whom have lost their homes doing all they could to keep them. Can anyone tell me why our goverment will spend 2.4 trillion dollars in Iraq, but won't give a hard working family $8000.00 so they can keep their home? Does anyone else see a problem with this?

Answer 1

The cost that angers me most is the money pansies spend on gas-guzzling foreign SUVs and Pickups to make them feel more masculine when all they need to do is to join the service. The cost of the gas paid to companies who import fuel from the very countries we're fighting also upsets me. The cost to the economy when companies outsource, or otherwise employ non-US personnel is also of concern to me. The almost $1 trillion dollars cost to this country due to illegal aliens.angers me.

It angers me that people no longer buy a house to live in. They buy it for more than t's worth... far more than they can afford... because they hope that in a couple of years they can find somebody dumber than they are to pay more. Why should the government have to bail them out? I certainly don't want my tax dollars paying off somebody's gambling debts.

Of course it angers me when soldiers die... but not so much that they die--that part is both sad and heroic, but that people use their flag-draped coffins as soap-boxes from which to preach anti-war, anti-military, anti-American bull stuff.

Answer 2

Your argument is absurd. I am sorry but since when is it the governments fault that some people do not know how to budget? Perhaps we should end the war, disband the military, and surplus all of the equipment so the government can take my tax dollars and pay the mortgage of several people that don't want to take responsibility for their spending habits. Why should this become the government’s problem? I have had to work at times 2-3 jobs to pay my bills and provide a roof over my head. You do what it takes. It is not up to the government to pay peoples bills. Never has been nor ever will, that is, unless Hillary gets elected. Liberals want us to be dependent upon the government instead of being responsible for ourselves. I understand that sometimes bad things happen to good people, however, of those who lose their homes, how many are due to overextending with the type of home, luxuries in the home, or excessive credit card and other debt? Come up with a better argument as this one does not work.

Answer 3

this might properly be a plinking conflict. WWII had 3 international locations combat the international for roughly 7 years, which killed over 40 two million people or over one million/4 of the international's inhabitants. Over 4 hundred,000 individuals lost their lives. i might say it is on par with the massive apple and Chicago gang wars in the Nineteen Thirties the place all people had automobile bombs and Thompson machineguns. It took approximately 50 years to get those adult adult males off the streets and yet greater gangs popped up. The Iraqis will could decide what they choose.

Answer 4

I see a problem with you and your sniveling attitude about the government owing you. The government owes you nothing ! The taxpayers owe you nothing ! The war may be the only thing keeping the Muslim extremists from killing another three thousand innocent Americans. Oh, I forgot, you know about people who have lost lives and homes, but you don't understand the correlation between protecting the country and spending money to do so.

Your anger translates into a broad lack of what it will take to keep this country safe. Sacrifices will continue to be made, money will continue to be spent, Diplomats will fail, people will continue to die and Iran will continue to threaten the world peace. Not George Bush, Iran ! And, you're angry about that, well, that's tough, that's really tough, but you will get no sympathy from this quarter.

Answer 5

Got my soap box out so let me at it. I am opposed to spending money on any endeavor overseas or outside our nations borders unless all of our countries needs have been met. And let me say our needs are far from being met in this country. 2.4 Trillion dollars to fund part of the war why not 2.4 trillion dollars on medical insurance for every person in this country, prescriptions as affordable prices, education for all who are academically qualified, no homeless persons, safe schools, senior care without cost, education that prepares our young people to live in the world (how to get a job, how to keep the job, how to keep a check book, how to read a rental agreement (know your rights and responsibilities and those of the landlord), and last but not least no welfare ( we will now call it work fare and those in need will earn a paycheck, if totally physically or mentally unable to perform anytype of work then an administrative check, those able will work at some type of job answer phones for an attorney, sit in a nursing home and just talk with residents, hand out food at a food banketc.). I for one do not want to see the federal gov. bail out the mortgage industry or handing money to people who made a poor choice to start with in buying the home they could not afford. People bought the homes fully informed of the sliding rate. The reason some are in the fix they are is that they bought more home than they could afford or needed. We need to learn to make better choices in our financial situations. Small house, small mortgage more money to live better. Large house, biggg mortgage less money for things we really need.

Answer 6

I'm not giving my tax money to someone who overextended themselves on their mortgage.
If you can't figure out that if you only make $60,000.00 a year that you can't pay $65,000.00 worth of mortgage in a year- maybe you should still be renting.

Hillary proposed a million for a "Woodstock Museum"
us tax payers pay for retarded stuff all year- food stamps for people dealing drugs and wearing gold teeth while living in public housing.
Senators and Representatives flying to their vacation destinations.
We paid congress to make non-binding resolutions about crap that has no bearing on anything:
Rush Limbaugh
Move on org and that General Petraus ad
The Armenia Genocide (boy hasn't that become a foreign relations nightmare- go Nancy. lol)
How many tax dollars have been wasted in Federal assistance after Katrina- wasted by thieves taking what wasn't theirs.

The war is a huge cost but you might want to consider some of the other things your money is going for as well.

Answer 7

You have got to be kidding, right? You think the mortgage meltdown is tied to the war in Iraq/Afghanistan? I thought it was tied to unwise people buying more house than they can afford and getting a ARM to afford it. When the ARM adjusted upwards, they couldn't afford the new mortgage.

While I have sympathy for them, I would not vote to bail them out for their poor decision at my expense.

Just another incident of people failing to take personal responsibility and looking for someone to blame their problems on.

Answer 8

Yep, we can't buy a gallon of milk because of all the hidden taxes that we are hit with. Gas goes up, electricity, clothing, everything. Meanwhile people are homeless and can't afford to go to the doctor for treatment of diseases.
You have to remember that the war is about money, nothing else. It is a big game of chess, that the rich play. The poor people get help as long as they don't own anything.
As long as they are totally dependent on the government they can get "welfare". The middle class are the slaves of the country, they pay all the bills. The rich don't have to play by the same rules as the middle class. They are excused since they call the shots and make the rules to begin with. The war isn't about democracy, it is about who can drive gas prices up to make the oil magnates richer and richer. A whole lot of people are getting very rich, at the expense of the poor soldiers who are out there dying for some say, they wrong cause. I say if you don't pay your taxes, what do you own?
Nothing. So why are we fighting for democracy in Iraq, when we don't even have a democracy here. We have socialism, plain and simple. It makes me sick to think about it. I don't care about the money, I care about how the aristocrats and money mongers make fools out of the rest of us, and the poor soldiers who are out there protecting us from the result of our own glutonous behavior. Look at it like a pie, 75% of the pie goes to War, 8% goes to welfare, the other 17% is
spent on keeping the fat cats of government fat. So there is no funding for helping a hard working person keep their home. Is it really theirs? If the bank takes it, who profits?
You fat cat government, that is who.

Answer 9

First of all, belongs in politics not military.

Second, tell'em to join the military and fight with us. They'll make enough money to pay their damn house payment and won't have to be communists accepting a socialist government.

Answer 10

We are spending that money to keep Muslims (or terrorist) and others from killing You. If someone kills You You will not need a house,
Not mad at all
Have You written and asked the terrorist why they are spending money to kill us, when they have less that We do.