I'm going to say it again THE REPUBLICANS HAD NO TROUBLE SPENDING BILLIONS ON THE IRAQ WAR!!!!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

I am so sick of Republicans. Day after day they are bleating like lost sheep about the stimulus package about it being this, that, pork, beef whatever.

WHY HAVEN'T THESE PEOPLE BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR PUTTING THIS COUNTRY INTO ONE THE LARGEST DEBTS YET OVER THE IRAQ WAR! THIS POINT HAS NOT BEEN MADE LOUD ENOUGH.

Some have obviously forgotten http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home

I want the Republicans to pay American citizens back out of their own money.

[AtomicKitten]

1. "fiscal responsibility" is a corpse they've cut open and climbed inside

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. yes

[Clio the Leo]

2. KEEP saying it! NT

[Triana]

3. They had no trouble spending a $1.3 TRILLION on tax cuts for the rich and big business

in 2001 either. Nary a peep about it - but now that we need to save the farkin economy and help working, middle-class and poor folks, they're having a COW.

Poor pretentious hypocrites. Pfft!

They INHERITED a record budget SURPLUS and turned it into RECORD DEBT in 8 years. This MESS is THEIR doing.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. We really do need to keep on at this until they submit

[agentS]

35. See "The Daily Show" interview w/ John Snuununu

i can't spell the punk's name, but he is now on the TARP panel and he came on Daily Show last week to talk to Stewart about the Stimulus package and other such things. He kept bringing up 'fiscal responsibility' when Stewart hit him on 'where was fiscal responsibility when it comes to Iraq' and the titanic crowd pleaser 'we spent billions in Iraq so why can't we spend billions here?'

Damn right Stewart, damn right.

[LakeSamish706]

5. The serious answer is, they care more about Politics and keeping their seats...

than they do about America and there fellow citizens.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. they should pay us back

I want a refund for the war I didn't want

[muntrv]

6. Spending money on US infrastructure, BAD! Spending money in Iraq, GOOD!

On edit: Repuke policy.

[Cha]

10. Spending money on Iraqi infrastructure

good..spending money on America, BAD.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. I wish the media would cover this

one of our moranic neighbors here was complaining about the 'pork' in the stimulus and I asked her how much money has this country spent on Iraq. She said she didn't know but it wasn't as much as the stimulus package and that we had to go into Iraq. I asked why and she said because of 9/11. :banghead:

[Cha]

30. People are so brainwashed..

we're so lucky to have Obama..what if people like your neighbors had their ignorant way?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. yes we are lucky

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. No money for the firefighters here but money for those in Baghdad

not that I want to deprive the Iraqis but we do need to put our fires out here.

Also they had no trouble building a large bridge in Afghanistan but our bridges are crumbling
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav082107.shtml (not that we want to deprive them of stabilization out there.

[ashling]

23. Don,t you see?

We had to put out the fires over there, so that we wouldn't be able to - er, HAVE to put out the fires over here.
:crazy:

[Cha]

8. They had no problem sending our money

down the abyss for a misbegotten war on Iraq.

Why do they hate America? And, I mean that sincerely.

[knowbody0]

11. the biggest American Embasy in the world

Blackwater, Halliburton, imported slaves to do the work kept as prisoners, - all good? I scream this all the time, no one responds. 10 billion per month for six years? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Oh wait! that's the ok 720 billion tax dollars.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

13. maybe someone should spell this out on billboards and ads on TV?

[tularetom]

14. Of course they did it created a shitload of jobs

It was the full employment act for Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater (aka "Xe") and all the other war profiteers that jumped on the bandwagon.

Not to mention all the doctors, nurses, and undertakers that had work dealing with the thousands of American and Iraqi dead and injured.

That's the kind of stimulus republicans can believe in.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. yes bloody Republicans

they must be held accountable for this.

[Sydnie]

16. It's more than just the money on Iraq

It's also the money they borrowed to back tax cuts for the richest among us. They weren't crying in their beer that their grandkids were going to have to pay it back then, were they? They didn't seem to worry that their grandkids would have to pay back anything as long as it was them spending it.

It's OK if it benefits them and theirs but no one else should ever get a slice of THEIR pie.

Call the WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE, I feel a crying jag coming on! :)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. that's a question my grandson did ask me

if they have all this debt (he listens to the news) how is it ever going to be paid back.

[Lasher]

18. Borrow and spend Republicans

The record is clear. If you want fiscal responsibility, vote for Democrats.



http://www.lafn.org/politics/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. this should be pasted on subway walls and bustops for all to see

or a letter with this graph should be sent to all citizens.

[Thothmes]

31. What was the composition of the House of Representatives

for the same period of time?

[mvd]

20. A big K&R!

If this bill had all tax cuts for the rich and more defense spending, there would not be very many nays on the R side.

[midnight]

21. I'm with ya on this.

[Golden Raisin]

24. It is a source of never-ending

amazement to me that the Repubicans, seconded by the braying corporate media whores, have the unmitigated gall to pass themselves off as "the party of fiscal responsibility" and sneeringly accuse the Democrats of being "tax and spenders". The financial cost of the Iraq and Afghan wars is incalculable and beyond staggering. We are beyond the 'Twilight Zone'. Whatever numbers we are being told, the truth is it is more --- vastly more. This includes gems like the tons of infamous pallets of shrink-wrapped billions in cash DISAPPEARING completely and with NO accounting records under Proconsul Bremer's aegis. Add to the wars the bottomless pit of millions/billions in no-bid contracts handed out to crony, politically well-connected companies (i.e. Halliburton). Add the relentless lockstep drive and Republican core belief/mantra to continually provide the wealthiest few in this country more and better tax breaks while the middle and poor classes are shafted or, in the case of Katrina, literally left to die in the (flooded) streets. The current epically disastrous and mega economic crisis in which we find ourselves perilously close to a 1929 type of implosion/meltdown occurred, like 9/11, under Republican administration and power. Our country is in debt that probably has to be measured in lightyears. The banking system is on the brink of collapse. But Republicans are "the party of fiscal responsibility".

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. The media should report the truth about them

[Golden Raisin]

29. Couldn't agree more but

as long as the parent companies of the mainstream media are big-bucks corporations and conglomerates with agendas (i.e. News Corp (Rupert Murdoch), Time-Warner, Disney, GE, etal.) I'm not holding my breath.

[tanyev]

25. And with absolutely no oversight.

A large chunk of that money has wound up in the pockets of ethically-challenged people, or just been completely pissed away.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. the Republicans have been fleecing America for decades

only to masquerade under war

[Pryderi]

28. That was to keep us safe!

:sarcasm:

[lynne]

33. Sad to say, but the republicans didn't do it alone -

[Rosa Luxemburg]

36. but they were the ones that hoodwinked everyone else

[baldguy]

34. Billions for war, not one red cent for the American people.

That's the GOP platform in a nutshell.

[spanone]

37. bu$h* raped the fed of 350 BILLION...although that doesn't concern republics

[Rosa Luxemburg]

39. debt and spend republicans

[santamargarita]

38. But that was Bush helping his friends not Americans

:beer: :sarcasm: