Comments on: Iraqi Embassy: Another $700 Million Waste On Bush’s Watch

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:37:25 +0000

Tater Salad is spamming again.

By: jrfunkenstein

jrfunkenstein — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:37:53 +0000

‘Spending on National Defense doesn’t benefit the country?’

Exactly what benefits from the Bush administration defense spending can you point to?

By: EOM

EOM — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:09:05 +0000

So the only important thing is Who spent the money, not what it was spent on. This certainly should reduce oversight and paperwork costs.
Does this mean if the money just disappears, nobody is at fault? Time to study Magic.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:43:00 +0000

Wait a second – didn’t Dubya tell us that all that shit was going to be paid for using Iraqi oil? WTF happened to that “selling point” to the war? Just another lie.

By: Matt Osborne

Matt Osborne — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:08:34 +0000

Jody, you need a lesson in ECON 101.

GDP = (G) + (I) + (E) + (C)

The economy is made of four things: government spending, investment spending, exports, and consumer spending.

Consumer spending has taken an enormous hit and shows no signs of recovering. We haven’t had an export surplus since the 70s. And investment spending is *just* starting to come back.

The only thing left to pick up the slack in GDP is government spending. It can’t solve the problem, but it can certainly make things less awful. Haven’t you heard of the New Deal?

By: Jody

Jody — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:28:54 +0000

Spending on national defense benefits the country.

Spending it on boondoggles based on falsehoods most assuredly does NOT help the country.

Not that they’ll ever understand the difference.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:02:34 +0000

“Spending on National Defense doesn’t benefit the country?”

It does, but it’s not as cost-effective as spending on infrastructure (roads, bridges, schools, hospitals).

By: Jaim

Jaim — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:59:25 +0000

We should be spending billions on American infrastructure, because it’s falling apart and it creates jobs for American builders and contractors. We shouldn’t spend another penny on trying to prop up an Iraqi regime led by pro-Iranian Shias that will be hostile to us.

Remember when you cons attacked Clinton for “nation building”? No? I sure do.

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:38:40 +0000

Ah yes that evil Obama spent huge amounts of money here on us. Why couldn’t he be like the other President and just lose it or spend it all on another country.

You get an F as in FAIL.

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:27:32 +0000

How is losing $1 trillion dollars considered spending?

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:17:38 +0000

Hey, that’s … … … still $400 million less than Obama lost in his first 9 months in office.

E for effort though.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:15:43 +0000

We definitely need to approve our education.

(Sorry, but you walked right into it.)

Spending on National Defense doesn’t benefit the country?

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:11:55 +0000

Wow $1 Trillion lost, Thanks Bush….

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/18/MN251738.DTL

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:05:51 +0000

So spending billions on US is bad, but spend millions on a build is okay?

Also this is only one thing I am picking a bone about. Lets not forget about millions and billions, and trillions lost under Bush, okay.

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:01:51 +0000

Yea deficit spending on other countries and wars is the same as deficit spending on approving our lives( in health care, energy, education, unemployment benefits, our infrastructure, etc).

I do have a problem with the amounts of spending that is going on, but I am willing to let it slide some since WE ARE THE BENEFICIARIES.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:52:21 +0000

It wasn’t just “billions”. It was billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions
and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and bill.

That’s 393.5 “billions” (or $787 billion) for those too lazy to count. Does bring a sense of perspective to how piddling the amount is that you’re bitching about?

PS: By spending that $700 million, think of all the jobs Bush created or saved…

By: 2ndAmndmnt

2ndAmndmnt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:47:54 +0000

Just think about what was spent everyday over the last 9 months

Deficit spending under BOOOSH BADDDD!!

Deficit spending under Obambi…kinda AWESOME!!

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:14:45 +0000

Just think about what was spent everyday over the last 8 years.

By: cj

cj — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:12:40 +0000

Also giving billions in education, unemployment benefits, Medicaid, middle-class tax cuts, renewable energy, etc to and for our own citizens but of course outrage over that is understandable. *roll eyes*

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:12:10 +0000

The Federal Government has spent more than $700,000,000 since you woke up this morning.