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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 03:21 PM
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I'm sick of hearing about how we're going to pay for healthcare.
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These sanctimonius professional liars, who call themselves politicians, you know, the Liebermans, Grassleys, Landreaux, et al, get on television and radio, acting so goddamned concerned about how the government can afford to pay for any healthcare legislation. They are so transparent it's truly pathetic. They have taken so much money from the lobbyists, the only grounds that they can offer any resistance is through "fiscal responsibility." It's a laugh. How can we afford such sweeping changes to the healthcare (insurance) industry. We must not be cavalier with the taxpayers money.

Well, Mr. Lieberman, I didn't see you being too concerned about spending taxpayer money, when your state received 134 million dollars in pork last year.

Same goes for you, Mr. Grassley, when your state received 184.6 million dollars in taxpayer funded pork for your state.

And Ms. Landreax, I mean, really, 291 million dollars of U.S. taxpayer funded pork for your state?

Over 10.1 billion dollars of our money fed the pigpens of every state. That's nothing to sneeze at.


Maybe you people should worry more about where our money goes the next time a spending bill, any bill is laden with earmarks.


Oh, and one more thing, you may want to start cutting costs at the Pentagon, to help pay for Universal healthcare.

Seeing as how the "official" DOD budget is roughly 600 billion dollars, which is 21% of our total budget. But let's not stop there. Our REAL budget for DOD this year is 1.1 trillion dollars, taking into consideration non DOD expenditures, what with all the war stuff and outsourcing, and all. Don't you think that budget might be just a little bit bloated, seeing as how it makes up between 35 and 42% of estimated tax revenues?

Especially when you consider that the Pentagon just loves to purchase weapons systems from cozy defense contractors, who haven't even invented the technology, in some cases, for the weapons systems that they sold the DOD. And then there are the infamous "cost overruns" which are a way of life to defense contractors. It's nothing for contractors to win a bid for a project or some type of system, only to routinely increase the cost by 200%, and then naturally, the pentagon pays it. We (the DOD) are still purchasing weapons systems for Cold War enemies that no longer exist.

Let's face it, leaders, 42% of estimated tax revenue for defense alone takes a whole lot of air out of the room. Repeat after me, "
there is no sin in slashing a bloated pentagon budget..."

So, guys and gals, you want to know where the money is? It's there. Oh, yeah, it's there.


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