$50 bil to Pentagon, another $100 bil for wars, 1/2 trillion total for war

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Lawmakers expect Pentagon request up to $100 billion more for wars

CAPITOL HILL Two key House lawmakers say the Pentagon is working on a request for up to 100 (b) billion dollars next year for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Florida Republican Bill Young, chairman of the House appropriations defense panel, and ranking Democrat John Murtha of Pennsylvania, say the military has informally told them it wants 80 to 100 (b) billion dollars in a war-spending package that the White House is expected to send Congress next year.

That would be in addition to the 50 (b) billion Congress is about to give the Pentagon before lawmakers adjourn for the year.

The request would push total spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-(t) trillion dollars.

The Pentagon still must write a final proposal and the White House still has to sign off on the plan.

http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4241639&nav=1kgl2TNN

Could your town use any of this money?


Costof war.com has an excellent database that can be used to pinpoint the direct impact of money spent in Iraq on a state's discretionary spending.


Could your tax dollars be better spent?

Federal Budget Trade-Offs from: http://costofwar.com/index.html

Go to this page and enter your state, choose your program, choose your tradeoff: http://database.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoff

[indepat]

1. Such a small price in treasure, lives, limbs, and brains to bring freedom,

liberty, and democracy, Bush-style, to the Iraqi people. Besides, a lot of oil and natural gas are in the region.

[HeeBGBz]

2. And the south coast is living in tents

While FEMA trailers sit unused because of bureaucratic bullshit.

[kentuck]

3. Yep, freedom ain't cheap...

:shrug:

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7. God giveth freedom

"As Americans, we believe that freedom is not
America's gift to the world, freedom is The Almighty
God's gift to every person who lives in the world."
— G. W. Bush

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Military/Industrial complex? Naaaah. Just "patriots" cashing in.

All in the name of "defense" from the current bogeyman.

[OneBlueSky]

5. Congress MUST shut off the tap . . . it's the only way to end . . .

BushCo-initiated perpetual war . . . and the money is needed elsewhere, e.g. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast . . . these people are killing America, just as sure as I'm sitting here . . .

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8. That is where the war is fed, in congressional appropriations

Democrats in general have let Bush define the war supplements as a measure of patriotism and support for the soldiers instead of a vote for more war, but, that's what it is. A vote for continued war.

[Jacobin]

6. And let New Orleans wash away into oblivion

Great priorities there, Mr. BubbleBoy