Seattle Times: "We can afford" $87 billion

[Newsjock]

Freakin' idiots.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2001718469_bushed08.html

Editorial
The cost of war and peace in Iraq

President Bush last night asked for an extra $87 billion to wage war and peace in Iraq.

That works out to just under $300 per American, which is less than 1 percent of the average wealth produced per American per year. We can afford it; there is no question of that. The question is whether money spent to suppress violence in Iraq, to train an army and police, and to rebuild from war is worthwhile. History suggests that it is.

America has undertaken a job, and we are not done. The war was easier than the critics predicted, but the aftermath is not so easy. Saddam Hussein's sons have been found but he has not, nor have all his loyalists been pacified.

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[this_side_up]

1. the 87 is only for 1 year and

was it Delay who said that the current 3 tax cuts are
just the beginning?

[Myra]

3. Obviously the Seattle Times is the more moronic of our two papers

By far.

The Seattle PI is the less moronic one.

[Old and In the Way]

2. What's their address?

I'll send them my bill. Idiots. America has undertaken a job? No, the PNAC club has undertaken an unnecessary invasion and occupation.
Who wants to bet that this was written by another chickenhawk neo-con?

[punpirate]

4. Good, they can afford it....

Tell `em to get their wallet open, then.

It's on top of the money already spent, which was unnecessary, and, if they bother not to fake this with averages, the tax cuts have put a greater burden of the costs on the average citizen. Moreover, the budget's already in process--this is just more deficit spending which will accrue to our descendents.

And, when the accounting is done, it will likely be more than this number.

And, when the people figure it out, it's several times the affordable housing and food stamp budgets for this year alone.

Why won't just one single media outlet ask, "how much of this proposed $87 billion will go to corporations friendly to George Bush and Richard Cheney via non-competitive contracts?"

How much of this money will be spent to develop oil production infrastructure (which, in a wholly privatized Iraq, is to the benefit not of the Iraqis, but of multinational oil corporations which will pay the Iraqi people the standard 12-1/2% royalty on oil the benefits of which previously accrued entirely to the treasury of Iraq).

When will just one national reporter describe this for what it is--graft?

[pfitz59]

5. Seattle Times owners want to end the estate tax.

plain and simple. they will support idiot McShrub 100% until the tax cut is made permanent. Should be renamed the "Bellevue Blow-job" because it sure as hell doesn't represent the people of Seattle!

[opihimoimoi]

6. Those fuck heads got ultirior motives

fuck thise guys, they Selfish Pub assholes

[ixion]

7. if it were my CHOICE

I wouldn't give two cents to help these people carry out their atrocities.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. What pure unadulterated crap....

...if you divide $87 billion by 250 million total Americans, it does work out to be $348 per person. What the Seattle Times failed to mention is that we DON'T HAVE 250 million WORKING Americans.

So, after you subtract out the children and other people not currently working, let's take a look at about 120 million Americans as the correct number of working people. That works out to $750 per WORKING person. How many of those people can afford yet another hit to the bottomline?

What was that again about a tax cut?

Maybe the Bushies have "undertaken a job", but I don't personally remember signing on to an attack on ANY nation in the Middle East.

If Bush wants $87 billion, let him get it from his wealthy buddies and corporations that he's been working for over the last three years.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Bam.

Right on the money. Literally. :-)

[gratuitous]

12. Just wait for the shakedowns

You! With the pacifier! Where's your $300 ante? How about you, you freakin' freeloader?! Oh sure, on a ventilator in a nursing home, I suppose you think that makes you King Shit of Turd Island? Three hundred clams, pal, or maybe I start pulling plugs!

[JohnyCanuck]

10. What happens when they blow through the 87 billion

after handing out more sweetheart deals to the Dickster's friends at Halliburton, Brown & Root etc. and then have to come back and ask for more. Dubya will be doing the Oliver Twist, "Please sirs, can I have some more?"

[skypilot]

11. $300 per American?

Indian giving motherfuckers. I guess they're coming back for those "refund" checks they passed out two years ago.