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>Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, has stated the total costs of the Iraq War on the US economy will be three trillion dollars in a moderate scenario, and possibly more in the most recent published study, published in March 2008.[11] Stiglitz has stated: “The figure we arrive at is more than $3 trillion. Our calculations are based on conservative assumptions.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War
THAT’S JUST THE IRAQ WAR! OOOPSIE! ADD IN THE AFGHANISTAN AS AN EXERCISE FOR THE READER! OH AND DON’T FORGET TO ADD LIBYA WAR, ANOTHER ONGOING ENTITLEMENT OF THE WARMONGERS! SYRIA SOON!
Well, don’t forget the WAR on the middle class. No prisoner’s taken.
Wake Up Fools. The Republicans want to Kill America but they can’t do it without your vote.
Pedro==you are quick with the never ending allegation and call out but rarely do you ever follow up with any argument/analysis/link. You call everyone you disagree with a troll, a sheeple, or off their meds but we never know why. Pure personality posting like a little girl. What is your Facebook Account: “I like Paper Dolls?”
I challenge you to make any rational argument at all to support your criticism. Until then, do you prefer cut out dresses or animal shapes?
Grow up.
Pedro==why, yes, I do.
No es más que cortés para hacer frente a una persona utilizando su nombre.
I do have to admit I’m a bit on the line about whether to ignore you or post as repetitively as you do…………..yea, I think unless it is right in sequence and relevant, I’ll add you to my Alfie list.
You are just too boring, unimaginative, isolating, and an irrelevant annoying fly. You could do better, but refuse to do so.
Now we’ll see if the glue works.
Taxed Enough Already Dude said “Why can’t we outsource Government jobs, ship them overseas to save lots of money?”
Amazing. America really wants to roll over and give up.
I think its been posted here several city or State governments out sourcing certain call centers to India. “It is cheaper.” said the good government managers. And quite right they are.
I could google it, but it would be too far down my list. Got to read the biography of Ulysses S. Grant first.
I am amazed how TEA dude devalues his fellow Americans.
#52, #49 Because unlike face lifts, abortions are a health issue. Dumb ass.
Um, then why isn’t it called that instead of “Planned Parenthood?”
Facelifts:
If you were to get one, it would improve your outlook on life. Maybe you wouldn’t call people names to make a point.
But! Even better, it would also make you better looking.
This will make you more attractive to your boyfriend.
This would make your boyfriend stay around the house more often.
Thus, any communicable diseases he has will be contained instead of spread around.
I think the CDC should give you a facelift on that fact alone!
Don’t get into a name-calling contest with an ex-sailor. You’ll get slapped down so hard your grandparents will feel it.
#89 Nope, still nor agument. Your notion that facelifts and abortions equate in the context of a public health issue might resonate with your sheeple religious loons, not the thinking public.
Sailor, really? Is that the gay branch of the military? Are you still collecting a government check or just tax payer healthcare?
#90, You need to look up the mission statement for Planned Parenthood. Besides, even if it WASN’T about abortions, the government doesn’t need to be supplying healthcare.
Not “retired” sailor, “ex” sailor. And I wouldn’t step into a VA hospital if my life depended on it.
#92. I find the mission statement well written. You can thank planned parenthood for not seeing fetuses in your local Kroger garbage bin or public restroom.
Also, don’t confuse the term Public Health issue with Healthcare. Your government controlled and regulated clean water is a public health concern and not Healthcare.
Your lack of knowledge in these basic principles is why I support public education. The fact that you get to vote without knowing these basic principles indirectly affect my life and family and very concerning.
#93, I find the mission statement well written.
So you agree with state sponsored Eugenics?
You can thank planned parenthood for not seeing fetuses in your local Kroger garbage bin or public restroom.
I think you are over-exaggerating the benefit of this government agency.
And that is why I support a private education. Public Edumecation is why we are in debt up to our ears and sinking fast. When the government is responsible for educating the youth of country on the importance of itself, it is a conflict of interest.
<i<Public Health issue with Healthcare
Um, it is a health care provider. It states it on its About Us page.
Yep, there’s public Edumecation for you.
#93–loser==let’s parse:
1. I have no problem with an organization like this that wants to function as a charity. /// All charities get tax benefits that call upon the public purse.
2. I’m not particularly fond of some of the original (and current) intentions but that is not for me to judge. /// If by judge you mean “have an opinion on” of course it is for you to judge, just as you do.
3. But I DO have a right to judge it as long as my tax dollars are spent an organization like this or any other organization that doesn’t benefit everybody. /// Nothing benefits everybody. Or, we all benefit when various minority groups have their needs met. Silly rhetorical position of no merit.
4. That is part of the problem that you can’t seem to realize. It is morally wrong to take money from everybody and give it to select groups, not based on anything intellectual, but on political favor. /// Arguing in extremis creating the false adversary. Everything has an intellectual basis and by definition every dollar expended by government is the result of political favor. Even if I sprinkle adjectives liberally on your thin gruel, the point you fail to make is childishly inept.
LIEberTARDS==a true scourge to civilized society. Would you all could be shipped off to an island of our own design and come face to face with what you advocate for. Sadly, this kind of justice escapes us all.
Are the Wall Street bailouts, TARP, and the other billions of dollars in government programs associated with the “financial crisis” all covered by some other set of books? Or is that called “monetary easing”?
#2- right on gmknobl. National Defense hides part of its budget by using many States’ National Guard, to fill the roles that normally cost the regular Army, Navy, Air Force, to fill. And the States are playing for it, thru their taxes. They’ve been pulling this dodge since the Ronald Reagan era. Maybe earlier. But I recall how guys use to try getting into their State’s Guard, in order to avoid be drafted and fighting in Vietnam. George Bush jr. included. But by the 1980s, kids in the Guard were calling themselves “Reagan’s Bad Boys”, as they were being sent down to Panama after Noriega. But it probably wasn’t part of the “National Defense” budget. Because that would have required Congress’ Ok.
Yup. I was right again. What I wrote in #4 sure came to pass.
BTW, Sanger’s politics has little to do with today’s Planned Parenthood. We aren’t going to get rid of the United States because most of the founders were slave owners, medicine because it was originally based upon bloodletting, or chemistry because it was based upon turning lead into gold.
There is nothing about eugenics in PP’s operations today. Nor was there ever. The comment is obscene and displays the moral bankruptcy of the idiots touting it.
Mr Fusion: well said. but this really made me laugh: “Liberty Loser needs a new kitchen to spur the economy.”
Keep the good stuff coming, roots and all.
#101, Yup. I was right again. What I wrote in #4 sure came to pass.
You mean you pointed out an obvious fact?
Damn, you’re smart!
But are you smart enough to tell us why you would sacrifice a bunch of kids to save your wife?
BTW, Sanger’s politics has little to do with today’s Planned Parenthood.
Um, I hate to tell you this, but the mission is identical. They’ve just changed the wording to protect themselves from public persecution following WWII.
And their top award is still called, ta da!
The Margaret Sanger Award.
I guess we need to have a Jefferson Davis Award for those who show the most progress in Human Rights.
Loser–as apparently the anti-choice/government controls your body mindset really pisses me off, I will respond to:
“But are you smart enough to tell us why you would sacrifice a bunch of kids to save your wife?” /// by law, only the mother can sacrifice one kid per her druthers. but to the question as posed, yes, I would sacrifice all “my” kiddies to save my wife. Kiddies can be made at will, not so the wifey. Course, if she started bitchin’ bout me having beer for breakfast, maybe I’d turn misogynist like yourself.
what a stupid f*cktard.
I disagree with T Dud that we should outsource have the Chinese protect our border and incoming shipping containers.
Clearly, T-Dud wants to expose American children and helpless elderly to terrorism and painful death. Shameful.
Hey Pedro–an actual response instead of spam? Go look up the Hyde Amendment.
#105, I agree with you (don’t faint). He’s close to being put on my Bobbo filter.
He’s religiofascist which is just as bad as forced-altruism.
http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/hatch-tells-liberal-millionaires-to-walk-the-walk/2011/04/20/AF0MYzDE_blog.html
Mike–do you not comment on the value/meaning of the link because it is just that stupid? If its that stupid, why did you link it?
If I were a millionaire, I would sign such a petition because it is about sound social policy not an individual act of inconsequential impact.
You do see the difference?
#109, I think Obama should lead by example and donate his refund to the deficit.