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Did anyone see where that $85 Billion went

mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
edited August 2008 in A Moving Train
A recent report states that the US has paid $85 Billion dollars (that's our tax money people), this does not include 2008 fiscal year, to contractors in Iraq.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iraq_contractors
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  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
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  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    Accountability is a tough goal to attain sometimes
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    In 2003... wasn't the total price tag of Iraq going to be $200 Million?
    ...
    Damn inflation.
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    Just another good reason taxes should be lower.
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    know1 wrote:
    Just another good reason taxes should be lower.

    I agree but I don't think lower taxes is the solution to the problem. The government will still spend recklessly regardless of how much, or how little, we pay in taxes. Lowering Taxes is the governments way of making sure that most Americans stay ignorant to the way they carelessly spend our money.
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  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    Yeah... Well we got that tax stimulus check, so we should not question where all the other money goes.

    We gave our stimulus checks to the polar bears. We figured that was what the government should be doing with it.

    It's all imaginary money to the republicans anyway. They print it up every day.
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  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    Strangest Tribe wrote:
    Yeah... Well we got that tax stimulus check, so we should not question where all the other money goes.

    We gave our stimulus checks to the polar bears. We figured that was what the government should be doing with it.

    It's all imaginary money to the republicans anyway. They print it up every day.

    Last time I checked the Democrats have to vote on every spending bill as well. This is not a Republican or a Democrat problem. It's the both of them fleecing us.
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  • Strangest TribeStrangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    mammasan wrote:
    Last time I checked the Democrats have to vote on every spending bill as well. This is not a Republican or a Democrat problem. It's the both of them fleecing us.

    Except when the republicans want to use raising taxes as a political stance against the democrats, when in actuallity raising taxes is a better solution than pulling money out of thin air like the republicans do.
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  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    mammasan wrote:
    I agree but I don't think lower taxes is the solution to the problem. The government will still spend recklessly regardless of how much, or how little, we pay in taxes. Lowering Taxes is the governments way of making sure that most Americans stay ignorant to the way they carelessly spend our money.

    I agree that they will always spend recklessly, so why wouldn't the painfully obvious solution be to limit the amount they have to waste?

    If they don't have any money to waste, it won't matter if we're all ignorant to their careless ways.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    know1 wrote:
    I agree that they will always spend recklessly, so why wouldn't the painfully obvious solution be to limit the amount they have to waste?

    If they don't have any money to waste, it won't matter if we're all ignorant to their careless ways.

    They will waste the money wether they have it or not. They spend more than collect as it is. As of the end of 2006 we had a budget deficit of $850-875 billion and that does not take the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq into account. So yes they can lower the taxes and it will allow us to keep a little more money in our pockets but that money will be worth less because the government will just continue to print more in order to march on with their spending.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    mammasan wrote:
    They will waste the money wether they have it or not. They spend more than collect as it is. As of the end of 2006 we had a budget deficit of $850-875 billion and that does not take the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq into account. So yes they can lower the taxes and it will allow us to keep a little more money in our pockets but that money will be worth less because the government will just continue to print more in order to march on with their spending.


    Fine then, if the government is just going to spend as they please and print up money out of air, then we do not need any politicians saying anything about raising taxes at this point.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • freindlyfiredfreindlyfired Posts: 297
    My favorite is the Gao or whatever it is called at the moment issued this statement regarding the pentagon's books "the spending is so mismanaged they are inauditable"
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