Columnist ignored costs of fighting war in Iraq
I had to read the whole article written by Mona Charen ("Food stamp gimmick misses point," News & Record, April 28) hoping that I would find a complaint about the more than $500 billion we have spent on the Iraq war.
Well, it seems that she does not mind spending the taxpayers' money killing and maiming our young men and women (and thousands of Iraqis in the process). The money is well spent because it's lining the pockets of the oil industry and not the stomachs of our poor.
Lucia De Ratmiroff
Greensboro
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I heard the off budget money spent for the war would solve the S/S crisis for 75 years.
... so you mean I could leach off the government in exchange for wearing a head towel and simultaneously stop worrying about me daughters college funding? .... hhmmm sounds better all the tine!
Posted on May 5, 2007 6:37 AM
James,
Did you see the Moyers special last week about the media lying down for Bush? Here's the link and you can even listen to it or watch it.
Seems the ONLY media doing the verification and research was the Knight Ridder chain, which is dwarfed by the big boys.
Here's the link:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
Posted on May 5, 2007 9:05 AM
JDR, I love your thoughts on that one! Imagine what could have been done with all of that wasted money!
Of course we know that far too many would be against using taxpayer monies to help those less fortunate in country though! I mean really! They should just get up off of their lazy backsides watching cable TV and go to work. They should also just pull themselves up by their boot straps and start their own businesses and be their own persons! Why should they be helped? They live in the wealthiest nation on the planet, if they cannot survive on their own in the USA, then they do not need taxpayer monies!
(I hope the last paragraph is read with the sarcasm in which it was written.)
Shalom
Posted on May 5, 2007 11:05 AM