...if instead of risking the lives of hundreds of American soldiers to topple a witless and petty despot, we spent that $4 billion a month on our inner cities right here at home. I wonder how many American lives we might have saved.
Great! Now if we use the same criteria of victory and success that the liberals are using for Iraq (it's been four months and Iraq is not yet heaven on Earth! QUAGMIRE!!), we can cut all the welfare and social spending programs if poverty has not been eliminated in a year. Heck, I'm a nice guy. You can have two years.
We still have poverty, ghettos, education problems, poverty-related deaths, health problems in the elderly, and all the rest, after spending on the order of five trillion dollars* on these problems. In fact, a good case can be made that welfare programs as currently devised tend to encourage some of the problems.
Is this a "quagmire?" Or money well-spent to keep a problem under control?
*Enough to keep our troops in Iraq at a $4 billion a month burn rate for over a hundred years
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- Tallying the Dead in Iraq
- Wow! Goes to show how masterful the invasion was vis-a-vis the Cassandra critics projections, Thanks! (n/t)
- re: Tallying the Dead in Iraq
- More people have died in Washington DC in the same timeframe...
- re: More people have died in Washington DC in the same timeframe...
- Yeh. And we should have left baby Jessica in the well. All that trouble for one measly life! (n/t)
- Larry wins the Moral Relativism award for this week.
- Imagine...
- re: More people have died in Washington DC
- More people have died in Washington DC in the same timeframe...
- If only the U.N. were running things...