How in the hell can woofie separate the economy from the war in Iraq?

[lonestarnot]

Is he fucking nuts?

[Selatius]

1. Maybe he's that stupid. More money spent on Iraq = less money spent on American infrastructure.

The result is collapsing bridges and failed levees in places like New Orleans and an old power grid that can black out cities like New York.

[lonestarnot]

2. How many billion per month now?

[Selatius]

3. I dunno, 2 or 3 billion a month?

At this point, it's difficult to count. It's one of the largest expenditures the US government has outside of Social Security and Medicare. If we spent on education like we spend on war, we'd be the smartest people in the world, but we're not because we don't spend that much on education.

[lonestarnot]

4. or homeless or child abuse or hunger or people who are cold or

the environment (and I don't have to tell you, just feel like bitching)

[ixion]

5. more than that, I believe...

4 yrs = 48 months.

500,000,000,000

equals: 10,416,666,666.666666666666666666667

Looks like just over 10bln per month :-(