[citation][nom]joebob2000[/nom]Don't make me bring up the Iraq war 'emergency funding' (Courtesy of G.W. Bush) that added about 1,000,000,000,000 to the national debt, and was only marginally effective at creating jobs.[/citation]
No, actually, let's bring it up. First of all, let's get your facts straight. To date, the Iraq war has cost $692 billion. This for a military action, running for over six and a half years, against a totalitarian government known to use WMDs against its own people, sponsor terrorism in foreign countries, and who's continued refusal to abide by UN inspection guidelines led to 11 resolutions, the last of which warned of military action for "...violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq support terrorist organizations that direct violence against Iran, Israel, and Western governments....And al-Qaida terrorists escaped from Afghanistan are known to be in Iraq."
The results of that military action are undisputable. A ruthless dictator and his barbaric sons are dead. 28 million people who lived under the iron heel of The Butcher of Baghdad, who is known to have killed about two million people, are free.
Now, compare that to the "Stimulus Package." This has saved or created maybe 30,000 jobs (which is insignificant next to the 10,000,000 jobs we've lost) at an estimated immediate increase to the national debt of $1,400,000,000,000! Barack Obama has, in a very short 9 months, increased our deficit more then the sum of all the deficits we had for the first 200 years that this country existed!
You want to keep going? We can talk about the unchecked cost of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Public Education (given the abysmal performance of our system, it's awefully hard to justify this as a continued federal expense). Those four items, right there, constitute the lion's share of the federal budget. We have over $50,000,000,000,000 in unfunded obligations because of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. So spare us your self-righteous indignation and sanctimonious hand ringing.
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