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09/08/2003 Archived Entry: "Brother, can you spare $87 billion?"
Brother, can you spare $87 billion?
Man, oh, man. I watched Whistle Ass' address to the nation tonight, and I still can't believe it. The 'irrelevant' UN is now our best buddies again, and we've been 'asked' for 87 billion dollars (for this year) for the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure, educational system, electrical grid, and military.
How are we going to pay for it? Why, by gutting our infrastructure, educational system, electrical grid, and military, of course.
That's $300 per every man, woman and child in this country. Everybody pony up, because you know that we aren't really being 'asked' for the money - we're being told that we're getting stuck with the bill for this fucking fiasco.
Replies: 7 people speak up
Is that the $300 bucks Bu$hCo gave back to everyone but me 2 years ago? Damn.
Posted by Joisey @ 09/08/2003 04:15 AM NY
yeah, last time they at least had the decency to tell send me a letter telling me that i didnt make enough to get a tax cut, this year,, nothing. anyway, dont worry theyre not going to take the $300 directly from you, they will just take it out of our schools, hospitals, social safety net programs, libraries, universities, roads, military pay and benefits (certinly not weapons) and of course environmental programs. do we really need all those things anyway? i mean come on people this is america, cant we just privatize all those things? im sure we can entrust corporations with every aspect of our society. just look at how well it has worked so far. it has worked so good with health care and insurance after all, why not just go the rest of the way?
p.s. i hope my sarcasm comes across in type
Posted by justin @ 09/08/2003 10:36 AM NY
Justin,
Sarcasm coming through loud and clear.
Hell, what's $87 billion among friends?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 09/08/2003 04:41 PM NY
If you don't like it, call your congressmen. There's still time to stop it.
Posted by Mario @ 09/08/2003 09:24 PM NY
Mario,
If Bush had asked for $87 trillion, Congress would be falling over themselves to approve the appropriation. Don't you get it? Bush wears an American flag in his lapel, to oppose Bush is to oppose America. It's really that simple.
Won't you join your fellow citizens and become a happy, little lemming? It's the patriotic thing to do.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 09/08/2003 09:43 PM NY
Maybe you folks forgot, but that $300 bucks you got was care of the Democrats. A bad move for them really, since Bush has gotten the credit for it.
Posted by madprophet @ 09/09/2003 04:11 AM NY
Just after Bush's speech we saw part of an interview he gave on CNBC. Did anyone else catch that? I couldn't help but notice how much he was sniffing throughout the interview...do you suppose he had a 'snort'?
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030905/55357_1.html
Posted by Allison @ 09/11/2003 02:48 AM NY
