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What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy

Seeded on Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:48 PM EST
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This explains why government priorities are important better than most anything I've read recently. It also broke my heart.

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Prophet

We should stop referring to the crisis in Iraq as a war or even as an occupation and start calling it what it is, a larceny.

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Reply#1 - Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:13 PM EST
fritzg

Clausewitz said "war is politics by other means". Today, "war is the accumulation of wealth by other means."

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Reply#2 - Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:37 PM EST
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entropos

Well, anything that keep universal pre-school from becoming a reality is fine with me. I say that somewhat tongue in cheek.

    Reply#4 - Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:06 PM EST
    Jason4188

    Well its not all a total loss. We have given so much money to haliburtion and made so many rich Americans Super Rich we should feel the Trickle down effect Bush and Cheney promised any minute now.....any minute....

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    Reply#5 - Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:13 PM EST
    Prophet

    I'm getting awfully tired of them pissing on my head and telling me that it's the trickle down effect. Trickle down economics don't work. The rich are too greedy.

      #5.1 - Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:21 PM EST
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