the war on dissent

[theknife]

Originally Posted by Mazer

To the average family, sending $135 a month overseas for a war effort means foregoing the little luxuries for a while: maybe driving a little less, maybe waiting to buy that new TV. You might not be consoled even if you knew that money was being spent to improve the lives of millions of people, as well as buying better armor and equipment for our troops to make them safer, but you're not going to starve for the want of $31 a week.

i would submit to you that if every household in the country starting recieving a monthly invoice for $135 dollars with "Iraq War" printed across it, support for Bush's Big Adventure would pop like a balloon (as opposed to slowly deflating, which it seems to be at the moment.)

one of reasons the administration gets away with a financial fiasco like the iraq war is because most americans don't see the bill and aren't smart enough to make the connection between a multi-billion dollar war and high taxes, underfunded schools, underpaid teachers, high college costs, reduced mental health services, reduced government aid programs, medicare cutbacks, projected Social Security bankruptcy, national parks cutbacks, rotting roads and bridges, etc etc., not to mention staggering national debt, which falls on future generations with the same effect.