Dems should spin the $87 billion

[jeter]

What can it buy us? How many schools? How many teachers? $87 billion is more than what we spend on education. Twice as much as we spend on domestic infrastructure.

$87 billion could give everyone without health care total coverage.

Spin, Spin, Spin.

[poskonig]

1. How about this:

Bush is bankrupting this country with his failures on the economy and foreign policy.

[kalian]

2. Dems are BALL-LESS...

friggin COWARDS....
I am sick and tired of this "puppy with his tail between his legs"
attitude...

[jeter]

3. How about this

The Dems should come out and say that Bush's fuck up in not having a plan from the beginning is now costing us $87 billion.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Universal health coverage for all Americans, for free!

Welcome to socialism as it was meant to be: invest on people, not on arms!

and we still have money left for schools, teachers, and affordable higher education for all.

[jeter]

5. Indiana, socialism would bankrupt all of us

The way it did Russia.

[lazarus]

7. and the way

it's bankrupted Europe....

[sandnsea]

9. Oh nonsense

Look at what this little twit is doing to the country. He doesn't care about spending, spending, spending. That whole socialism claptrap is Republican propaganda meant to keep people dependent on the corporate teet.

We most certainly can afford generous social spending and it would help THE PEOPLE, not corporations. It wouldn't hurt this country a damn bit and it's time we stopped listening to all the corporate conservative fear-mongering.

[jeter]

11. social spending and socialism are two very different things

I refer to my comment above. Relax. ;)

[leftofthedial]

6. Dems need a truly compassionate exit strategy

Two prerequisites to that.

1. Make the case that the Iraq misadventure has actually made terrorism a greater threat. This is not the front lines on the war on terror, it IS terror. And we are the terrorists.

2. We can't just bail. We put every man, woman and child in Iraq in harm's way and we need to execute an orderly exit.

But we MUST exit as soon and as completely as possible. Articulate a reasonable exit plan, say $2 or 3 billion and a transition to international peace keepers,

THEN,
Dems should start telling America what $87 billion would buy right here at home. Healthcare, schools, infrastructure, alternative energies, job creation, technology investments and programs that actually help make us SAFER instead of making us bigger targets for ever more pissed off terrorists.

GODDAMMIT TO FUCKING HELL, these assholes have made me angrier than I've been since the invasion started.

[sandnsea]

8. Repeal the tax cuts NOW

I honestly don't mind so much that the money is being spent, if there was any hope it would do any good. It's going to Halliburton and Bechtel and the like with absolutely no controls. What are we up to now, almost $200 billion? $40 billion when the war started, $60 billion a couple of months ago, and now $87 billion??? Isn't that right??

We can't afford these tax cuts and we couldn't afford them when they were passed. To me it's not about the money being spent there instead of here, it's about the economy being in the toilet because of these overseas expenditures and giving tax cuts to rich people that we need to pay for it all which is just making everything worse.

And I don't ever want to hear a Republican say anything about spending too much money because they obviously don't give a shit about the money when it's something they want to spend it on. Let's not forget that either.

[bvar22]

10. Whhhhhaaaaaaa?????

Socialism bankrupted Russia.....and all this time I thought that Russia (The Soviet Union) bankrupted itself through disproportionate spending on armaments, state security, and spurious military adventures.

I'm also sure someone else will point out that the former Soviet Union was NOWHERE NEAR ANYTHING THAT COULD BE CALLED OR MISTAKEN FOR A SOCIALIST STATE!

[jeter]

12. Oh you socialists...

Welcome to the 20th century. Too bad the 21st century has already begun.

Let's incorporate an economic system that was developed in the 1840s.