How many TRILLIONS for these invasions?

[SHRED]

Wouldn't this be a better use of $2.2 Trillion?
And think of the employment generated...wow...I can dream can't I?


2009 USA Infrastructure Grades

Aviation D
Bridges C
Dams D
Drinking Water D-
Energy D+
Hazardous Waste D
Inland Waterways D-
Levees D-
Public Parks and Recreation C-
Rail C-
Roads D-
Schools D
Solid Waste C+
Transit D
Wastewater D-

America's Infrastructure GPA: D

Estimated 5 Year Investment
Need: $2.2 Trillion

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/


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[xchrom]

1. it would have been amazing. nt

[Soylent Brice]

2. you fucking unpatriotic bastard.

how dare you suggest we use money for the war(s) on something else.







:sarcasm:

[SHRED]

3. ;)

[lonestarnot]

4. K & R

[glitch]

5. What a comeback it could've been.

The opportunity costs on choosing war over infrastructure will make that $2.2 Trillion look like chump change.

[HughBeaumont]

6. How many, indeed?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/71

How many billions could be put into the economy by not having to police and maintain a global bully empire?

How many billions could be put into the economy by levying a 0.025% - 0.05% tax on trade transactions?

How many billions could be put into the economy by ending the two disastrous go-nowhere wars against nations that did absolutely NOTHING to us?

How many billions could be put into the economy by instituting a CAP on the CEO industry (and make no mistake . . . it IS an industry. Unless they invented the product or started the company, NO human being is worth that much damned money)?

How many billions could be put into the economy by raising the minimum wage to 10 dollars an hour?

How many billions could be put into the economy by revitalizing our manufacturing and industrial bases?

How many billions could be put into the economy by stopping the unnecessary and greedy practice of job offshoring until American citizens start getting employed again (and don't even tell me there's a "skills" shortage. It's called an "On the CHEAP" shortage)?

How many billions could be put into the economy if the wages of the average American actually kept up with inflation and production since 1979?

How many jobs could be saved by instituting universal health care instead of leaving it up to the employers, who are forced to mark their prices up due to our costlier-by-the-year, piss-poor health care "system" (currently ranked 37th in the world. Awesome.) saddling them with more of an anvil on their backs?

How many billions could be put into the economy by raising taxes on the wealthy RIGHT NOW instead of waiting for them to expire in 2010?

How many billions could be put into the economy by using wasted Pentasewer dollars for a better social safety net for it's laid-off citizens, or a guaranteed income so that consumerism (unfortunately, the lifeblood of a junk-food economy that only employs heavily degreed people pushing paper containing phantom dollars) doesn't come to a grinding halt during bad times?

How many billions could be put into the economy by, and I'm just spit-balling here, SIMPLY NOT FIRING ANY MORE PEOPLE?

Please logically explain to me how business is going to happen or a depression is going to be averted when no one is spending because they don't make a wage that's worth the fiber it's printed on and a quarter to a third of America is out of work?

[area51]

7. +1 (n/t)