Reply #4: Tell me about it, and yet the RethugliKKKans are always whining about people on the welfare rolls... [View All]

[Lipton64]

Of course they don't realize when their policies help outsource good paying jobs and cause massive lay-offs and thus divorces - many people go on public assistance because they either can't afford to move to an area with better jobs and/or they don't know what to do with their lives. I can just fucking imagine 750K people coming here with their hands out for welfare - and we better fucking pay up. This country has caused enough hardship and trouble for the 3rd world to last a lifetime. My grandparents were refugees from Europe - the result of the failed policies of this country to that continent and a violation of George Washington's demands to stay out of foreign affairs at all possible costs.

But with Arabs having a huge birth-rate I can just imagine seeing the public schools across America and the money that's going to cost. Probably at least another 20 billion a year thanks to Mr. Bush and the Cheney administration's warped policies.

At least 20 billion *a year*(200 billion over a decade not adjusted for inflation!!)
God only knows, perhaps 40 billion total when it's all said and done in health-care

Housing assistance - also into the billions. Welfare payments - into the billions.

The war is said to be projected to cost already well over a trillion bucks by the time it's over. I doubt that's even counting in the cost to absorb and "citizenize" these Iraqi and other Middle-Eastern refugees who come here and the healthcare and other social costs of the troops who Bush wounded and maimed over there for life.

This is truly going to be a very expensive war - perhaps costing up to 2-3 trillion when all is said and done assuming we include all the "refugee costs" into the war costs.