We've spent twice the amount of money bailing out Wall Street

[rateyes]

in the last several months than we have so far in the last five years on the war of choice in Iraq.

That's money that should be going to help our young people get through college. We could have single-payer healthcare for the amount of money we're using to bail out Wall Street.


Where are our fucking priorities?

:banghead:

[guitar man]

1. our "priorities"

under this misadministration are what they have always been for the last 8 years...give more to the richest few at any cost and fuck everybody else...:grr:

[HughBeaumont]

2. To prop up a crumbling empire with a 2 x4, apparently . . .

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0202-26.htm

Among the few we continue to violate . . .

You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re the richest country in the world, but nearly 50 million of your people don’t have basic health care coverage.

You know your empire’s crumbling when the World Health Organization ranks your healthcare system 37th ‘best’ in the world, just above Slovenia, and just below Costa Rica. (And far below Colombia, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Morocco.)

You know your empire’s crumbling when instead of making it easier for citizens to obtain a higher education, you’re making it harder and more expensive.

You know your empire’s crumbling when your middle class has been stagnant for three decades, while the wealth of the hyper-rich continues to climb through the roof.

You know your empire’s crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still the gap between the rich and the rest.

You know your empire’s crumbling when the predatory class has taken over your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.

[predfan]

3. How's about somebody smarter than me put a pencil to how many homes

we could convert to solar for, say, just a couple of hundred billion dollars?

[dbonds]

4. We can't have wall street being a problem for the election.

Put all these bandaids on it to get it through November.

[The2ndWheel]

5. Do we have money for any of that?

If we don't have money for Wall St bailouts or wars, then there isn't any money for college or healthcare either.