* "Cashing in the War Dividend": As Healthcare Reform Limited by Deficit Concerns, Military Spending Continues to Grow *
As lawmakers hash out the final details of legislation to reform the nation's healthcare system, one of the key questions is: How much will it all cost, and how will it affect the federal deficit? While $900 billion over ten years may sound like a hefty price tag, it is a mere fraction of this country's spending on the military, which is expected to grow by at least $133.1 billion over the next decade."
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http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/21/cashing_in_the_war_dividend_as
In case you were curious about following the money. If we could stop the idiots, who purport to have the power to speak for us, from starting wars that have NOTHING to do with the expressed goals and EVERYTHING to do with Oil and War Profiteering, the last of which is a treasonable offense, we would be able to do something good with the money.
Label this Healthcare VS the Military State.
The Politicians who did this really can't argue that the Taliban had anything to do with 911, because they did not. Nor did Saddam Hussein. These two entities were just convenient targets, and now look what's happened. We have a Military State. And the Devil's in the Details. Here's a few more of the Details.....
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Read it and wonder just what on earth we never learned from the Collapse of the Roman Empire? I mean they study that thing at the War Colleges. Duh!
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