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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:56 AM Nov 2012

How To Put $100 Billion Dollars A Year Back Into The US Treasury

Get out of Afghanistan.

On the 'plus' side, we only are going to pour another $200 billion or so dollars into Afghanistan for the next two years.

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How To Put $100 Billion Dollars A Year Back Into The US Treasury (Original Post) unhappycamper Nov 2012 OP

Actually we're doing that war on a student loan... HereSince1628 Nov 2012 #1

+1 xchrom Nov 2012 #2

Probably more, GW lies gave unprecedented growth to profiteering, i.e., Halliburton, Blackwater/Xe mother earth Nov 2012 #3

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

1. Actually we're doing that war on a student loan...

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:59 AM

Nov 2012

if we drop out we have to start the payback, which seems to be why the neocons are desperate to enter IRAN a grad-school for sw asian wars.

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

2. +1

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 08:00 AM

Nov 2012

mother earth

(6,002 posts)

3. Probably more, GW lies gave unprecedented growth to profiteering, i.e., Halliburton, Blackwater/Xe

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:00 AM

Nov 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/opinion/sunday/runaway-spending-on-war-contractors.html?_r=0

Tales of waste, fraud and mayhem by private contractors have been commonplace during 10 years of military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now a Congressional study commission has put a “conservative” estimate on waste of between $31 billion and $60 billion in the $206 billion paid to contractors since the start of the two wars.

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The waste was never an election issue thanks to a BS candidate like Rmoney and all the wasted time of focusing on matters that don't threaten our entire economy, like banking corruption, etc., etc., etc.

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