Why should Americans pay for a "Billion Dollar Jobs Program for Iraqi's?"

[KoKo]

What the hell is going on here. I thought we already gave our TAX DOLLARS TO HELP UNEMPLOYED IRAQI's?

:shrug:

[Ninja Jordan]

1. Congress better stop this

Earmark the budget. I will be pissed if we spend money on this.

[liberal renegade]

2. what was the

unemployment rate in Iraq before shock and awe?

[malaise]

22. You break it, you bought it

If this world was fair, the costs for invading Iraq illegal would be way higher not to mention the war crimes.

[magellan]

3. Bush** is way generous with our money

But now is not the time for that, even if we could trust this next injection of funds to actually be spent properly rather than wind up like the still unaccounted for BILLIONS already lost over there.

[madrchsod]

my wife and i could use a job

we have paid our taxes where`s our help?

[burythehatchet]

4. For one reason because we destroyed their country

and their economy and killed a half million of their people. Believe me, I could use a little help myself but I feel a moral obligation to those who have been harmed in my name.

[me b zola]

10. I agree with what you say, but if you could like at it from a different angle...

There would be jobs out the yang if we--military & foreign contractors--were to leave Iraq. Until then reconstruction will be an excercise in futility and a huge waste of money--regardless of whose money it is.

[burythehatchet]

19. You're probably correct

which is why the oversight that I expect beginning now SHOULD remedy that to some extent. This will be especially true if the war profiteering bill passes. But understand that I hate this as much as anyone, but none of us are suffering like the people in Iraq.

[scarletwoman]

12. But that's not the point. The point is, what have they been doing all these years?

BILLIONS of OUR dollars have been sunk into Iraq. One would have hoped that our "leaders" would have been smart enough to do obvious things with that money, like establish "jobs programs".

Yet, just NOW we're being asked to poney up more to START a "jobs program"? Excuse me -- uh, if you guys haven't already been doing this, then just what have you been spending all this SPECIAL! SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION! RECONSTRUCTION! money on?

Fuck this shit! We should put MORE money in the hands of the very same people who have already totally fucked up this whole idiotic project from the very beginning?!?! No thanks.

Get out NOW. THEN send carefully audited and scrutinized money to carefully selected and audited and scrutinized projects.

sw

[burythehatchet]

17. No argument, but we allow this monkey to stay in office

and the Iraqi people should not be the ones to pay the price for that.

[KoKo]

18. Why should average Americans pay for what Bush/NeoCons DID in Destroying

their Country? What about all of us who MARCHED BEFORE THE INVASION...and AFTER TO STOP IT? Are WE TO BE HELD TO BLAME FOR BUSH POLICIES? :grr:

You can see I'm really worked up about this. :-(

[burythehatchet]

21. In my estimation yes, we are to blame. I marched right alongside

you, but we did not succeed. That's why we turned over the congress in the hopes that we could fix this. Democracy (in name) means that we all pay the price regardless of our position. And boy have we paid.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Nope, we gave our tax dollars to Halliburton, who hired in contractors

from everywhere BUT Iraq.

If we'd done this 3 years ago it might have made a difference, but now it just provides the insurgenst with more targets. They know it full well already - work for or with the Americans and you will eventually get shot at, if not kidnapped and murdered on the way to or from work.

ON EDIT: The same applies to those who would administer the funds - the so-called government of Iraq.

[KoKo]

16. Incredible...almost Four Years Down Road for WAR and they want More $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s

from us Taxpayers to do a "Job Corps" for Iraqi's?

I thought we "Invaded Iraq" to get rid of WMD...and Saddam...didn't know we would DESTROY their COUNTRY and then give them "Jobs, Healthcare and Motivation!"

Besides the Iraqi Middle and Upper Class have already LEFT IRAQ being smart like us DU'ers and knowing their kids would have NO FUTURE THERE!

I'm all for helping the poor and disenfranchised but it seems AMERICA is FILLED with so MANY WHO NEED HELP that I can't understand helping Iraqi's that we INVADED MORE than American Appalachian Coal Miners and Sons and Daughters of those who are still dealing with "Dot Com Implosion" and Downsizing and Outsourcing and all the rest of the BUSH ECONOMY IMPLOSION for the MIDDLE CLASS!

There is SOMETHING VERY WRONG HERE!!!!

[okoboji]

6. wow

a BILLION dollar entitlement program for Iraq, but the people in the U.S. can't have universal heath care.

what is wrong with this picture?

[Ilsa]

11. W wants unemployed in US to move to Iraq for work and

health care. I betcha. He wants you to learn Arabic and be a policeman in Baghdad.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Heh.

As if real Iraqis were going to see any of that money anyway.

[blm]

8. I'd prefer my tax dollars go to their jobs than to their funeral arrangements.

Jobs not bombs is the answer. If only Bush could understand that.

[maxsolomon]

9. we threw plenty of money in that rathole already

didn't we?

wait, those billions of dollars all went to american contractors & graft?

at this late juncture, there is no way to administer a jobs program. what are we going to do, hire syria & iran to do it for us?

[blues90]

13. we already paid halliburton and KBR .

[Jack Rabbit]

14. So that transnational corporations based in the US can outsource to Iraq

Simple.

[pinniped]

15. I guess oil proceeds aren't being reinvested in the country.

I bet the Iraqis aren't getting any proceeds at all.

[Eric J in MN]

20. I would support this if I believed the money was really going...

...to ordinary people.

After wrecking Iraq, we owe them.

But the Bush Administration is so corrupt, that the money would probably go to American Bush cronies instead.

[B Calm]

23. Tax the rich to pay for it! or republicans can forever stop calling

theirselves conservative!

[MichiganVote]

24. When was the last time the US had a billion dollar jobs program????

[Horse with no Name]

25. Do you honestly think that money is going to out of work Iraqis?

I don't.
It's just more graft for this boondoggle. Just sounds better to say we are creating jobs than stealing money from the treasury. It also seems that there are some Americans who will buy it.:shrug:

[partylessinOhio]

26. Hey, Baby Bush, reverse all those tax cuts for your rich buddies and then

you can give some of it to the Iraqii people who are deserving of so much more including YOUR full apology for invading and destroying much of their country and infrastruture. "You" should also pay damages to the families of all the Iraqiis that you killed.

[cassiepriam]

27. It is all monopoly money to bush. nt

[AlCzervik]

28. and why the hell can't this be paid for out of all the already appropriated

reconstruction money? Where the F*ck is any accountability at all?

[Imagevision]

29. Bush expects "death squads to turn in their AK-47's & R.P.G's for a paying job

[irislake]

30. Just don't steal their oil

Get the hell out and let them sort out the mess Bush has made.