$130 billion approved today for War:

[amborin]

"The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Wednesday another $130 billion for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and (it goes without saying) Pakistan, money that will be used to continue the wars and to escalate the war in Afghanistan. In the spring, they will try to pass another $30 billion or more, labeled as funding for the escalation, but 4 out of 5 spineless warmongering congress members will tell their constituents at that point that they can't vote against something that has already happened.

That didn't stop them on Wednesday from telling their constituents that this $130 billion was not for the escalation. And, of course, peace groups had spent a year "strategically" opposing an escalation rather than the wars themselves, making it impossible to insist that congress members vote NO regardless of which dollars were for escalating."

snip

<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/48475>

[doc03]

1. Oh my how will that be paid for? Where's John McCain

on this spending? Never mind it's war we have to support the troops don't we.

[Hannah Bell]

2. = nealy $500 for every man, woman & child in the US. & it's only *part* of this year's

military funding, which is bigger than Social Security spending.

[amborin]

4. yes, and more war spending ahead besides this! n/t

[bigjohn16]

3. We hear all the time how hard it is to get anything done in Washington.

Yet when it comes to war it seems that all it takes is the stroke of a pen and the billions start flying. This country has some fucked up priorities.

[Hannah Bell]

6. yep. there's *always* money for wars, which shows us what a bunch of lying shitsacks

our leaders are:

"We can't *afford* (Social Security, health care, education, anything except war & corporate subsidies)!"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. money for war none for healthcare

[Lugnut]

7. Oh sure.

There's lots of money for wars and banks and none for the peons.

[amborin]

8. kicked, to show where the $$$$$ are going