so $400 billion for the war, $100billion for hurricane relief? how fair is that??
92638
This is comparing apples to oranges.  It costs a lot less to rebuild New Orleans than it does to ship troops and military equipment to the Middle East and to direct the war out there.  If the war was in the US, then it wouldn't cost as much as it does now.
974630
I have not heard that, but I believe the soldiers deserve it.\n\nAs for the other poster...I remember it being like $110 as well and always thought it was odd how they could put a dollar figure on hazardous duty.\n\nI wish your family the best with your husbands deployment and a safe and speedy return for him.
240599
One thing to keep in mind is that anytime money is spent on war it is usually in the form of debt.  Wars are paid for by borrowing money, or by raising taxes.  Neither one of these is desirable.  Eventually someone has to pay for the war.  Just because we spend the money on war does not necessarily mean that that same money would have gone to the poor or other social programs.\n\nGeneral MacArthur summed it up by saying:  "The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.”\n\nActually, the US gives more than just financial donations.  It provides military presence.  It provides the ability to trade through free trade agreements.  It provides benchmarks for other countries to follow the lead.\n\nThe US does give the highest dollar amount than any other country in the world.\n\nSee the supporting source for an in depth report on how the US aids other countries relative to the rest of the world.
1121845
Lazy!! You mean the people who pay the price for "free enterprise".  Over 90% who get assistance are handicapped, children and the elderly! THEY ARE LAZY???\n\nYou are a Bunch of sick people!!\n\nThe REAL lazy are the rich, who gets $93,000 of my money put in their pockets by Bush's tax cuts to the wealthy!!!\n\nI have never seen a bunch of self-righteous pathetic bunch of people in my life!\n\nAnd what would you know about a homeless Vet, suffering from PTSD, among other things? NADA!!\n\nFifty percent of the Budget goes to the Military and to PAY THE INTEREST on Bush's 8 TRILLION 400 BILLION dollar deficit!\n\nYea, lets build another sub! We need that more than we need to end poverty and homelessness in our own country!  Oh hell, lets give Congress another pay raise!!
956020
It started with the Terry Schiavo thing. That wasn't even about right to life. It was about a couple of controlling parents making a federal case out of a family issue. That's when Bush blew his "political capital". After turning a surplus into a huge deficit and losing thousands of lives in an illegal, dishonest, and mismanaged war, Bush has a lot to answer for. He destroyed the ability of the Federal government to respond to Katrina. That's going to take a lot of rebuilding.
796582
No, it was/is not!! \n$2,000,000,000,000.00 ....  count it 2 trillion!! 2 thousand billion dollars...\nfor GW to put a hit on the man who tried but failed to put a hit on his father .... \nSomehow,  2 trillion dollars for a family vendetta that also cost the lives thousands of US military men and women and maimed and ruined many thousands more, as well as causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of mostly civilian Iraqi women, children and men ... and destabilizing the entire Middle East seems a bit steep of a price to pay.  After all, they knew long before the start that there were no WMD's or programs to develop them.. So ... NO NO NO .. the bush family had no right to force the taxpayers of the US to pay for their mafia style vendetta....
1096329
Why he was re-elected is beyond me.  NOLA will get what it paid for.\n\nI am going to be criticized as being insensitive, but here's my $0.02 anyway.\n\nHow dumb are you if you are waiting for the government to tell you to leave the area when there is a class 5 hurricane heading straight for your town that happens to be below sea level???  And how can you be surprised that a house built directly on the beach on stilts to prevent flooding gets destroyed in a bad storm.\n\nI blame the liberals for creating a "victims mentality" in this country.  No one is ever responsible for their actions, "They never told me to leave, its Bush's fault for not telling me to leave."  \n\nSermon over.  Sorry.  Had to vent it, feeling better now.
1166081
Somewhere in that rambling pile of crap did you just suggest that Hurricane Katrina was Bush's fault? \n\nThat storm sat there for five days, pointed dead on at a corrupt city built below sea level with levees that were improperly built because the local government ripped off the federal funds provided to build them.\n\nOkay- now the Died for Oil part? Where the hell is the oil? It costs me over 100 bucks to fill the tank of my truck. If we went to war for the oil, I would think the price would have gone down by now.\n\nLied about 9-11? Who said that? Michael Moore? Yeah, there's a reliable source. A fat Hollywood slob who's made millions off of other people's tragedies.\n\nOh- and yes, I voted for him twice. And I'd do it again if it wasn't for Amendment 22 of our constitution. (You will study that when you get to high school. If you get there, that it.)
1162628
Sorry...I sure don't have an answer for that one.\nBut boy, can they spend big buck$$$ on war!\n\nHmmm.reminds me of a Vietnam-era poster:\n"War is Good Business - Invest Your Son".
927334
If war was ever a worthwhile venture it would be different. But this is not war, it's a battle ground for control of a region and it's resources.  Unfortunately it's still out of control with no real solution in sight.  The Bush wealth wagon loaded with oil realizes that the loss of control means loss of wealth and the demise of an industry full of greedy corporate fat cats sucking blood from hard working commoners dependent on fuel to eke out a living.  Democrats somehow always seem to botch something and lose their governmental footage leaving the people without a prayer and under the feet of the Corporate based mentality of the Republicans. Hopefully this will change and maybe the Democrats can keep their zippers up. Unfortunately the surplus was squandered by Bush and replaced with a national debt that will trickle down to your great grandchildren.
1092391
Well, they were like that way before the hurricane.  They were just trying to take advantage of the govt, when in fact we-the working taxpayers, are being taken advantage for because we pay for all this crap.  Why do you think the giant didn't wanted to help them right ways-so it clears the area a little bit from such people.
87248
I think it proves that cronyism is rampant in this administration. You know the UAE "donated" $100 million to the US for hurricane katrina just a few weeks before this all came up, also one of the UAE company that is doin this deal, DP world, top executives has been nominated by W to become our new Maritime Administrator.\n____________________________________________________________\n\nDubai, 24 January 2006: - Global ports operator DP World today welcomed news that one of its senior executives, Dave Sanborn, has been nominated by US President George W. Bush to serve as Maritime Administrator a key transportation appointment reporting directly to Norman Mineta the Secretary of Transportation and Cabinet Member. \n\nThe White House has issued a statement from Washington DC announcing the nomination. The confirmation process will begin in February.\n\nMr Sanborn currently holds the position of Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America for the Dubai-based company.\n____________________________________________________________\n\n\nWASHINGTON -- The United Arab Emirates gave the Bush administration $100 million to help victims of Hurricane Katrina weeks before a state-owned company there sought U.S. approval for its ports deal. \n\nThe White House said Thursday the $100 million for storm victims demonstrates the relationship between the two governments caught in a firestorm over the potential security risks of state-owned Dubai Ports World running significant operations at six major U.S. ports.
564729
no. the problem is that all this "enforcement" costs money and time and we seem to want these things but then we get pissed when the govt tries to enforce them. Big govt is not good. We need to keep our selves safe. keep ourselves reponsible, and dammit, keep ourselves from dying from hurricanes ALL BY OURSELVES!
464310
this is stupid.  100 dollars isn't going to really help anyone when it takes at least 30 dollars at least just to fill up once.  where is this money coming from?  oh yeah, us.  Yeah, i agree w/ u
66064
Have you seen what the US gives out, for free?  No comparison!  Billions of dollars.  Do the math
217672
i am from the hurricane area and there is big bucks to be made here..... the more workers the better..... it still looks like hell here..... i dont know that fema is looking but you can come here yourself and do it or you can find someone to work with..... i know people that live here and started to do this work and are now just short of 1 million dollars in their accounts....but those are the money hungry peeps..... so i dont know... you can volunteer or you can charge... which ever way the people will be thankfull... the waiting periods are so long right now....
696012
You are right on the target and it is true that We stuck in Iraq. Now what are we going to do about 140,000 men and women that we left there. By the way who is going to foot 3 trillion dollars war bills that we owe it to National debt. Your children and my children have to come up with an amazing theory to pay for. I am too old to work so I have no way to get money,HELP.