a 10 billion dollar question?

Obama said that we are spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq, and that we should be spending that money creating jobs here in America.

Can someone please explain to me how the US government would use that money to create jobs?

What jobs can the government create? Well, maybe hiring more IRS agents to collect the taxes that Obama will need to fund all of his promises.

I know what he said sounds good, but it doesnt make sense to me.

BTW, how is he going to provide all of this health care and education benefits AND lower taxes for 95% of Americans? I dont get it. How can you spend more, yet collect less?

AJ

 

I tend to think that the government is already doing everything it is going to do here at home, regardless of iraq.

Do you really think that the war is taking anything away from our schools and infrastructure?

I just dont see it.

AJ

 

Yeah Rbell, that is my point here. It sounds good for Obama to say but it has no substance.

AJ

 

That was great. I enjoyed that lesson.

I dont understand why liberals keep talking about the "Bush economy". The president doesnt do anything to make the economy worse or better. And, everyone keeps overlooking the fact that the economic mess is worldwide, not just here in the USA. European banks are facing the same problems ours are. Inflation is way higher in Asia than it is here. And Obama says he can fix it all?

I almost want him to win, just so this country will learn some truths and face reality. Nahhhhh......I dont want him anywhere near the White House.:laugh:

AJ

 

all of what you say is truley good. but "touchy feeley" politics is just a dream.

even the most staunch republicans want the things you just pointed out, but the dems will oppose even the most needed legislation as long as it is a republican that proposes it, and might gain some politcal adantage by supporting it.

AJ

 

And yet, you believe the lie that our funding of the war is at the expense of the workers here at home?

Please tell me how much of the 10billion we spend in Iraq wil be saved by having a "home based" , "in garrison" military as you propose?

How much real difference is there between funding our troops in Iraq, and funding them while in garrison, here at home.

Many of you may not know what "in garrison" means, but just ask MajorB, he can tell you.

And my main question is this? If Obama saves us the 10 billion a month in Iraq.....how will he use that to create jobs here at home?

That statement he made sounds good, but how will it actually come to be?

When has the government ever used 10 billion to create jobs?

When has it ever been the job of the government to create jobs?

Someone plaese tell me how the governmant has ever created jobs in the private business world?

AJ

 

When I am hunting and fishing back in arkansas, I see signs by the roads and even on some "game ponds" way back in the woods that say things like "WPA 1932" I think this was a great idea, but it died after the liberals came to power.

With the WPA, folks were gauranteed a job and paid for it. Maybe we would be better of if we took the same approach today, and, instead of giving huge contracts to private companys that exploit governemnt funding for civil projects, we employed the unemployed, then we would achieve three things,,,,,

One, we would get a return on the unemployment benefits that we pay out.

Two, We would encourage folks to gain employment instead of just using the system.

And Three, we would stop the corporations that depend on govenement support from fradulently billing the governmant for wildly overbilled expenses.

The WPA was a government program tha t benifited everyone. The folks that needed a job were gauranteed one, but the ones paying for it got a return, instead of just a higher tax bill.

AJ