You Want Austerity? End the F*cking Wars, Already [View All]

You Want Austerity? End the F*cking Wars, Already
by Situational Lefty
Sat Dec 11, 2010 at 12:21:14 AM PST

Our war in Afghanistan has entered it's ninth year, and we've accomplished very little in that time-frame. We've wasted billions of dollars, hundreds of American lives and countless mortar shells and auxillary rounds. We are no closer to victory than we were when we got into this mess in the first place. We are sacrificing money and lives at the altar of a war with no end.

And now our elected officials are trying to trim our National Debt, and they are targeting our Social Safety Net to bring us "Austerity".

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Why are we spending so much money to fight these wars when we could be using that money to fight an economic recession on the home-front?

Why are we spending so much money on foreign wars, when we could be providing the American people with stimulus checks that would actually be spent on revitalizing our economy?

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/11/924177/-You-Want-AusterityEnd-the-F*cking-Wars,-Already