800 Billion

[dreww]

ive always wondered why America is more worried about whats happening in the rest of the world, than what is happening in its own back yard.

talk about needing to mind our own business.

 

[mikeswift]

just think of the defenses for our country we could have built with 1.6 trillion dollars... let the rest of the world be and focus on home, once we build ourselves back up then we can go out and help the rest of the world on a case by case basis.

 

[Spiderman]

My view on this is the same as my view on personally helping people. I have no problem giving someone a hand or doing whatever I can to benefit someone else so long as it doesn't take away from my family a friends. I feel my responsibility lies first and foremost with my family and those I care about. I think the US should take the same view. We need to take care of our own before we even think about fixing the rest of the world. Now I know that sometimes things ust be done to avoid future probs for us...but I do not believe that this is the norm when we go out and overextend ourselves!

 

[mcgaret]

My view on this is the same as my view on personally helping people. I have no problem giving someone a hand or doing whatever I can to benefit someone else so long as it doesn't take away from my family a friends. I feel my responsibility lies first and foremost with my family and those I care about. I think the US should take the same view. We need to take care of our own before we even think about fixing the rest of the world. Now I know that sometimes things ust be done to avoid future probs for us...but I do not believe that this is the norm when we go out and overextend ourselves!

That makes TOO MUCH sense. We forget we are lock in over there because
of, not only our dependency on oil, but the $$ our rich make on it. There
are so many hidden agendas I dont think 'we' have a clue on all the closed
door dealings.

 

[dreww]

That makes TOO MUCH sense. We forget we are lock in over there because
of, not only our dependency on oil, but the $$ our rich make on it. There
are so many hidden agendas I dont think 'we' have a clue on all the closed
door dealings.

its only fitting in a country based on the almight dollar with a culture that favors materialism over family and tradition, that life is sacrified for finanical rewards.

 

[NAIR]

you guys are spoken like a bunch true liberal assholes

 

[NAIR]

Okay I'm kidding but I'm glad were over here spending 1.6 trillion dollars on the war while lazy assholes who don't want to conform to society die on the streets. Also, the school children that can't do music lessons in school should rally their parents support and lobby the mother fucking liberal state officials who insist on subsidizing the illegal aliens in this country (which of course drain other recourses i.e. public schooling). There are good damn reasons to be in the Middle East...do you guys actually think for a fucking second that we wouldn't be here if we really didn't need to be? That this is all a big republican conspiracy to capitalize on the oil market? GIVE ME A BREAK

 

[NAIR]

anyone who bases their opinions soley on what the media (which in case you havn't noticed is biased) reports shouldn't be aloud to vote.

 

[Spiderman]

I agree that there are reasons we need to be over there now...my confusion is over what got us there in the first place. I know that only a few people will ever really know, but I don't think that we should've gone when we did. The reasons given to the public when all of this started like "weapons of mass destruction" were never proven to be true and in fact were never ever found. Now, once we were there we were committed as a country and I do believe that Iraq will "eventually" be a better place because of our presence there. However, I believe there are a lot of things we need to tackle at home before we go trying to improve the quality of life for the rest of the world. Look at how many Americans are dying every year b/c of no health insurance, not because they are lazy but because they can't afford it. What is our medicare system and where will it be in X number of years. What could that 1.6 trillion dollars have done if put to use at home. What about illegal immigrants? How much could that money have significantly impacted this prob if put to proper use. I don't know...maybe I'm just young, and it's easy to sit here and have an opinion when I'm so far away from what's going on over there. But I am still not convinced of why we went over there. Why we need to be there right now, I understand absolutely...but it's why we went that I struggle with.

 

[dreww]

I agree that there are reasons we need to be over there now...my confusion is over what got us there in the first place. I know that only a few people will ever really know, but I don't think that we should've gone when we did. The reasons given to the public when all of this started like "weapons of mass destruction" were never proven to be true and in fact were never ever found. Now, once we were there we were committed as a country and I do believe that Iraq will "eventually" be a better place because of our presence there. However, I believe there are a lot of things we need to tackle at home before we go trying to improve the quality of life for the rest of the world. Look at how many Americans are dying every year b/c of no health insurance, not because they are lazy but because they can't afford it. What is our medicare system and where will it be in X number of years. What could that 1.6 trillion dollars have done if put to use at home. What about illegal immigrants? How much could that money have significantly impacted this prob if put to proper use. I don't know...maybe I'm just young, and it's easy to sit here and have an opinion when I'm so far away from what's going on over there. But I am still not convinced of why we went over there. Why we need to be there right now, I understand absolutely...but it's why we went that I struggle with.

big time fucking bump

 

[Get_Swole]

good points spidey i agree pretty solid on that.