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  • Posted By: J Druid @ 02/22/2008 10:34:29 PM

    The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic Parties are moving us closer and closer to Socialism, away from our Constitution (the true Test of American Patriotism). Both major parties pushed through the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties) allowing the Federal government (and the lawmakers) greater access in to our personal lives. We have welfare, medicare, and medicaid, all basically federal government subsidies for Americans as a socialist distribution of wealth and commodities. Then, we have the continuation of undeclared War (a direct violation of our Constitution), allowing the President (or socialist leader) the ability to unilaterally decide whether our country (our Americans) go fight in another country using military resources and costing volunteer military lives.
    The very core values of America that the founding fathers of our country laid out for us are being destroyed, and our nation is moving in a perilous direction. The American people need to Wake up from their Slumber, and start helping educate their fellow Americans that we are not Socialists, but in fact we are a Nation of Patriots (people who live by and die for civil liberty as well as individual rights).
    Our country sorely needs a third party that will rejuvinate and unify the 40% of Americans that usually don't vote, to overcome the two party system of the Socialist Democrats and Socialist Republicans. Individuals always care for other individuals through charity and good deeds, the Federal government steals from individuals to line the pockets of the Corporations and maintain power for itself, leaving whatever remains recycled back to the American people.
    Stop sleep walking into Socialism --- Wake up and fight for our Founding Fathers core values of freedom and equality for all! Freedom from the Federal government intervention! Freedom from excessive taxation!

  • Posted By: J Druid @ 02/22/2008 10:34:12 PM

    "There's only "a dime's worth of difference" between the Republican and Democratic parties, and they're fighting over that dime! "
    Obama, Clinton, McCain, Huckabee --
    1. All voted to continue funding the Iraq War.
    2. All support "comprehensive immigration reform" -- Washington speak for Amnesty for illegal aliens. They want their big corporation buddies to be happy now don't they with their cheap labor. Meanwhile we pay higher taxes to offset the burden that would put on Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare. If you subsidize something you get more of it, the more we subsidize illegal immigration the more we will get of it, and the more illegal alien families will be affected and hurt.
    3. All wish to enact some socialist program or another for the "greater good" -- Translation, we want you to pay higher taxes so we (the federal government) can spend it in the way that benefits our special interest group. Obama (Health care insurance companies), Clinton ( Pharmaceuticals), McCain (Military industrial complex including all military corporations), Huckabee (Military industrial complex).
    4. All are for reforming Washington and ridding it of government and lobbyist control (well so they say).
    5. All support the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties)

  • Posted By: Karenn1 @ 02/20/2008 6:55:56 PM

    McCain is not all there, an accident looking for somewhere to happen. check his pass on the forrestal.old wet start McCain. Obama is a change this country needs.Not some old relic who wants to war for hundred year.McCain is still in veitnam and stuck in neutral.Refers to Jack kemp supports me,who is Jack Kemp?You can put all that lipstick on that Elephant,but it won't fly.Even his own party member avoid him.Nuts Is Nuts.

    • Posted By: pyramid116 @ 02/21/2008 9:52:43 PM

      You're right in the sense that we don't care for McCain. But Barack Obama is a fraud, although an elegant and articulate one.

  • Posted By: carnabylane @ 02/21/2008 6:54:35 AM

    McCain would never be involved in something shady??? Give me a break! He is the only one of the KEATING FIVE savings and loan scandal still in office. That's because Arizona is famous for corrupt politicians. That collapse was the Enron of it's time and hurt a great many folks. Is it just politics as usual again? By the way doesn't Cindy look like she's back on the drugs?

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/21/2008 12:38:58 AM

    McCAIN"S WIFE CANNOT BE proud with the NEW yORK TIMES?
    IS SHE proud of HER HUSBAND?
    ONE DAy AFTER ATTACKING MICHELLE OBAMA, CINDy McCAIN finds herself in an akward position.
    I am sure MICHELLE WELL NOT STRIKE BACK. McCAIN did a masterful job in taming his wife's new found voice of criticism against Michelle.
    NOW it is her time to answer questions about her husbands affair in two thousand. THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED by McCAIN's former aides.
    McCain already has issues with CONSERVATIVES this will not help his CAUSE.
    CAN IT BE THAT HUCKABEE's pRAyers HAVE BEEN ANSWERED

    LET's LOOK AT THE FACTS.
    OBAMA has shown he can organize millions of people into an organized and effetive political force.
    He has made the correct judgements consistently throughout his campaign. AND THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. AT HARVARD AS WELL.
    HIS TEAM IS A REFLECTION of HIM ORGANIZED HONEST AND HARD WORKING.
    CONSISTENT, GENUINE.

    LET"S LOOK AT HILLARy's campaign.
    A lot of fighting and divisivness.
    A lot of firing's.
    A lot of bad JUDGEMENTS
    CONFUSION AND pANIC as a result of bad judgement and wrong decisions.
    THE BLAME GAME. IT's your fault, no its his fault, that's it you are FIRED.
    LETs GO RACIAL My destiny is more important.
    It is a reflection of her style. BROAD AGENDA's, BIG plans, that are blocked by gridlock, powerful lobbyist and her inablility to unite factions in order to implement a specific agenda. COMBINE THESE FACTS WITH SCANDAL and you are left with no HOpE and a BUSH in the OVAL OFFICE.

    BEING president IS ABOUT UNITING THE COUNTRy. THIS IS WHy, not just anyone can become COMMANDER N CHIEF. BEING president involves making real time decisions very frequently. OBAMA HAS proven time and time again he has a "nack" for making calm, cool, correct decisions in a real time enviornment. BE HONEST LOOK AT THE CONTRAST in CAMpaigns. THE FACTS ARE THERE.

    THE MEDIA NEEDs TO REALIZE THAT THEy are a tool of indoctrination. ANy GOOD politician can manipulate the media in their favor. OBAMA AND BILL ARE VERy good politicians.

    OBAMA STANDS FOR REAL CHANGE. HE IS NOT A DESperate CANDIDATE THAT WILL SAy ANyTHING TO GET ELECTED. BARAKOBAMA is not a fortune teller he cannot have concrete plans ready until he has his complete pRESEDENTIAL team together. THEN HIS pLAN HAS TO pASS BOTH HOUSES. ONE step at a time. TO GO INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL is a political trap because things change. OBAMA IS A pro and will not fall into that trap.


  • Posted By: FromTheTop @ 02/20/2008 12:55:41 PM

    "OBAMANOMICS"
    Senator Obama sponsored the "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) which calls for spending $845 billion, 0.7% of our GNP, over what the U.S. already sends to the UN. This money goes mainly to muslim countries who hate the U.S.
    THIS IS A MUST READ! IT IS IN THE LINK.
    http://kilosparksitup.blogspot.com/2008/02/more-on-barack-obama-s2433-global.html

    "He wants," says, [Larry] Kudlow, [Economics Editor-National Review] "to spend $150 billion on a green-energy plan. He wants to establish an infrastructure investment bank to the tune of $60 billion. He wants to expand health insurance by roughly $65 billion. He wants to 'reopen' trade deals, which is another way of saying he wants to raise the barriers to free trade. He intends to regulate the profits for drug companies, health insurers and energy firms. He wants to establish a mortage-interest tax credit. He wants to double the number of workers receiving the earned-income tax credit and triple this benefit for minimum-wage workers."
    "The Obama spend-o-meter is now up around $800 billion, and tax hikes on the rich won't pay for it. It's the middle class that will ultimately shoulder this fiscal burden in terms of higher taxes and lower growth."

    He goes on. "Obama believes he can use government, and not free markets, to drive the economy. Obama's program is anti-growth. A President Obama would steer us in the social-market direction of Western Europe, which has produced only stagnant economies down through the years."
    http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillMurchison/2008/02/20/checking_out_obama?voted=5

    • Posted By: Samatva @ 02/20/2008 10:53:08 PM

      Propaganda, distorted numbers, and a bit dollop of fear with a side of greed.

      Is "FromTheTop" not willing to pay for the many benefits received from being an American?

  • Posted By: sdmolof @ 02/20/2008 1:28:20 PM

    Meanwhile, the war is costing Americans more than $338 million a day. For less than what we're spending on the war, we could pay for affordable housing for hundreds of thousands of families, healthcare for children or scholarships to help folks pay for education. Gas prices are close to double what they were before the war began. We're borrowing $343 million every day to finance the war in Iraq (Moveon.org).

    Please make an effort to include the War in your media reach as having a directly negative relationship with our economy at home. If we continue on our current trail our economy will begin to mimic the degraded and depressed economies of the same countries we have invaded. We must also realize that pulling out of Iraq today and pulling out of Iraq in 100 years will likely result similarly, with death and destruction.
    If Nixon knew the outcome of the War in Vietnam before they entered, would he have continued to press deep into the jungles of hatred and violence that became the quagmire we know today? Answer yourself that question in terms of today's war in Iraq. Would you follow McCain? Would you continue on the path of idealism and spreading democracy to nations that do not comprehend even the simplest notion of democracy? Isn't that the explanation for 9/11? Experience doesn???t have the ability to simply conjure peace and democracy, especially abroad.

    It is clear this unstable region does not understand what it is to be a nation of democratic people. So be reasonable and include this mess in Iraq in to the talks on economic reform. Imagine every bomb dropped on innocent civilians as a new elementary school or a salary that could be paid a teacher. Imagine every bullet fired as a pair of shoes for a homeless man or women. Imagine every tank rumbling through that distant desert as unified and nationalized healthcare benefits for students and graduates that are under mountains of student loans and debt, including myself. Imagine all the pallets of cash that have been shipped to that distant land as the social security benefits our hardworking middle class citizens have invested in, disappear. Imagine what could have been of the life lost by an American soldier who wanted to become a doctor, a father, a son, a friend. Are these all dreams and imaginations? Sure. Do all these big ideas fall in line with the growing need and awareness of democracy at home? You decide. Are these ideas too big? Never.

    Never is there an idea too big, and now is the time for big ideas in this country that was founded upon them, and currently needs the most. Please consider this as more than a partisan based view but as a moral and reasonable truth that supercedes the affairs of special interest groups that have led our blind government into the dreadful abyss that is Iraq.
    The world needs big ideas.

  • Posted By: whatsitallabout @ 02/20/2008 12:29:28 PM

    I'm not an expert on anything, but I am 67 years old, so have some knowledge of life. I am very concerned that our country's real estate & many of it's large corporations no longer belong to our citizens, but to citizens of countries that wish us no good will. How did that happen? Where did Obama come from? I never heard of him until suddenly he's running for president. What experience has he had in running anything, much less my country? I don't care what color he is. He has no expertise except in oratory. Why is there so much flack against this war? Yes, it has gone on longer than we expected, but progress is being made which only came after congress finally allowed enough troops to be sent over to be effective. The loss of so many of our soldiers could have prevented if there had been enough of them there in the first place with the proper machinery. Has everyone forgotten 911, England'& Spains train bombings, our ship, the constant harrassment of Israel, etc. etc. etc.? How can we defend ourselves & win a war when the media, parts of congress, & so many of our immigrants seem to be on the side of our enemies. What if we had behaved this way in WWII? Yes, our economy is troubled by the war, but Americans are not willing to be inconvenienced even to secure their own safety. Many of the enemies of our country can be found as CEO's of our major corporations stealing from their own employees. What about the credit card companies constantly fleecing their victims with sudden very high interest rates? Will anyone be prosecuted in the real estate scheme that has ruined the housing market and bankrupted so many of our citizens? There are no ethics in the business world anymore. I am voting for the only one who appears to have the integrity and the common sense to steer this country right now and that is JOHN McCAIN. I can only pray that he is strong enough to fight the enemy that is within our borders, ourselves.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/20/2008 7:54:02 AM

    EVERY STATISTIC AND POLL HAVE Unanimously INDICATED THAT OBAMA WOULD DEFEAT McCAIN IN A NATIONAL ELECTION. THIS IS THE REASON OBAMA WILL BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

    McCain WILL BE DEFEATED IN A LAND SLIDE BY OBAMA in A NATIONAL ELECTION.
    THE ECONOMY AND THE WAR are AGAINST McCAIN. HIS ONLY SOLUTION IS TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO"FOR A HUNDRED YEARS". WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS. NOT ME, PERHAPS HOLY ROLLER CAN FUND THIS HUNDRED YEAR AGENDA McCAIN HAS READY FOR ALL TAX PAYING AMERICANS.

    HE WANTS TO KEEP THE BUSH TAX CUT'S INTACT. AS KARL ROVE MENTIONED IN HIS MOST RECENT ARTICLE IN NEWS WEEK, the REGAN ERA IS OVER. SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS IS NOT THE ANSWER.

    THE MIDDLE CLASS WILL HAVE TO SUFFER UNDER McCAIN.
    HE BELIEVES THIS AMERICAN SUFFERING IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO CARRY OUT A MISGUIDED FOREIGN POLICY WHICH IS BASED ON FEAR AND NOT REALITY. IN FACT McCAIN'S AGENDA IS BADLY OUTDATED AND VERY UNPOPULAR AMONG MANY CONSERVATIVES IN HIS OWN PARTY, manY oF WHOM WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA OR STAY HOME IN NOVEMBER.

    REMEMBER THE PROBLEMS IN IRAQ AND PALESTINE AND THE REST OF THAT REGION ARE
    POLITICAL in NATURE. McCAIN is a great MILITARY MAN. BUT HIS EXPERTISE WAS NEEDED in TWO THOUSAND TWO, not now. WE NEED CHANGE. AND OBAMA WILL BE ABLE TO UNITE FACTIONS IN ORDER TO BRING STABILITY TO THAT REGION.

    I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO OBAMA APPOINTING McCAIN TO BE THE NEXT HEAD OF HOMELAND SECURTIY.

    McCAIN's VIABILITY TO BECOME PRESIDENT EXPIRED FOUR YEARS AGO.

  • Posted By: Iraqi Toilet @ 02/19/2008 10:31:31 PM

    McCain is an empty-suit on domestic policy and economic policy.Didn't he go to the library last week to takeout a book on economic theory and policy? In the above Q&A, his policy adviser was asked about McCain's economic knowledge and said," He's got great instincts ". That is code for he's dummer than oatmeal. But hey, Dubya endorsed him yesterday and the thought was that if McCain wins Dubya will get a high cabinet post, maybe Domestic Policy Adviser. You have to give him credit though, at least McCain knows what the inside of a library looks like.Getting back to McCain, This guy is a dog for war ....he can see us in Iraq for another 100 years along with his posse of Joe Lieberman,Rudy Jewliani, Norman Podhorwitz, and others. With McCain,it's like Bush III, flushing more money down the war toilet in Iraq. A "we're in it til we win it" attitude . Bin Laden doesn't want to meet us on the battlefield. Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are distractions,he wants to beat us financially; cripple our financial institutions. Last week or the week before some Sheik lent Citibank , the biggest bank in the US, bailout billions to keep them solvent. He now owns 51% as a shareholder,the dollar is at its weakest point ever against almost every currency measured against it. Dubya is paying for his War with a government credit card. China, Japan, and Russia are owed trillions by the US. They are holding our war debt IOU's. Doesn't it kinda make you wonder how a guy who just borrowed a library book is going to solve the problem? Remember the old saying . " You can fool some of the people all of the time and most of the people some of the time "? Don't get fooled again!!!!

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  • Posted By: 85441396 @ 02/19/2008 2:12:16 PM

    Americans are in a difficult time. Let us all work together as though we were all a family of courageous people. Forget, please, politics! Together we are a strong diverse, ingenious, energetic, determined Nation. Can we not side-by-side and take on one another's "burdens?" All of us have challenges, troubles and share common human experiences. Actually, I believe, that together we share the solution to all problems. However, separately, we will surely fail. We do need one another because of our shared courage, strengthen, and perseverance. Let the arguments subside; for the common good of us all! Please!
    Signed, Your friend and compatriot.

    • Posted By: pyramid116 @ 02/19/2008 8:26:27 PM

      The only argument is that nothing these losers promise us EVER will matter...together we can't solve anything until we correct the existing problems we have with Congress and the media.

  • Posted By: back to the people @ 02/19/2008 4:21:12 PM

    John McCain is a patriot, and I admire his courage during his tour of duty, and also during his captivity. It is my opinion that we, as Americans are afraid of each other's differences. We are also afraid of change. Though Mr. McCain's heroism was commendable, it does not prove him competent, or compassionate enough to manage fiscally with compassion for the common person. I hope our fears of someone or something different than what we've had the last 7 years, will not translate into our voting Mr. McCain into an office is is ill suited for. Times have changed and we must also change. I don't push my views on anyone, but there are good Democratic candidates who offer America a fresh start, in this country first, and then the world. Don't let the spin and attack politics that led our country in the wrong direction, steer this country in the wrong direction again, don't be afraid to vote for change.

    • Posted By: pyramid116 @ 02/19/2008 8:15:25 PM

      Screw McCain and his war record. There were thousands of Vietnam vets, most were probably better pilots, and I'll bet we could find one that doesn't champion all of the ridiculously liberal things he does. There is no such thing as "Change" in this country, until all of those idiots in Washington vote themselves term limits and are not paid at all. Then we'll start to see the peoples voice heard again.

  • Posted By: pyramid116 @ 02/19/2008 8:12:14 PM

    John McCain will do the exact opposite of what everyone wants him to do. He relishes it in his old age. So maybe we should want him to win.

  • Posted By: mdonato @ 02/19/2008 1:21:00 PM

    The only candidate from either party who has the necessary understanding of macro-economics and monetary policy to keep this country from plunging into a deep recession is Ron Paul.

    • Posted By: rosebud @ 02/19/2008 6:05:14 PM

      I voted for Ron Paul in the Michigan primary. I thought he was out of the race. I really do like what Dr. Paul stands for. Getting back to our constitution but lets be realialistic, John McCain has it. I'm hopping that he names Ron Paul his vice-president

  • Posted By: joyce123740@charter.net @ 02/19/2008 4:54:26 PM

    If John McCain does NOT make a public OATH to totally seal all borders, REMOVING ALL ILLEGAL IMMGRANTS WHO HAVE ENTERED OUR NATION BY BREAKING OUR RULE OF LAW, WE WILL VOTE FOR THE DEMONCRITIC PARTY, NO IFS, ANDS OR BUTS ABOUT IT...IF WE GO DOWN, IT WILL NOT BE BY HIS HANDS OF POOR LEADERSHIP, IT WILL BE OF THE ABSOLUTELY WICKED LEADERSHIP OF THE DEMONCRITIC PARTY...if McCain is SMART, and WANTS to be POTUS, he will keep his word and not treason US-AMERICA like GWB has done with the illegal immigrants. THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY OUR NATIONAL DEFICIT AND CAUSE MAJOR AND MONUMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THIS NATION INCLUDING OUR GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONSHIP WITH WE THE PEOPLE. ANY PRESIDENT OWES WE THE PEOPLE ALLEGIANCE, NOT HIS CONSTITUENTS NOR ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY...WE ARE TIRED OF PAYING CHILD SUPPORT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES - WE HAVE OUR OWN PEOPLE WHO ARE LEGALLY HERE TO TAKE CARE OF AND WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK IN THIS NATION...WE ALSO GOT ALONG VERY WELL BEFORE THE DC FAT CATS BEGAN GOING GLOBAL ON US-AMERICA WITH TRADE AGREEMENTS OF WHICH NOW WE ARE IN DEBT UP TO OUR NECKS TO THEM.

  • Posted By: bigmagyar @ 02/19/2008 3:34:54 PM

    I agree with you maziar. Frankly McCain frightens me. I'm a PhD candidate with a strong ethics, economics,
    and policy background. I admire his war service, but he would only further alienate the US from the rest of world. Bush and the republican party have done a good job of creating an endless wave of terrorists who hate the US. Iraq is the single largest policy mistake in the last 20 years. And in order to pay for this mistake, they have cut funding in health and human services for children and single moms as well as the disabled and elderly. Be it Clinton or Obama - McCain needs to go down in flames!

  • Posted By: maziar @ 02/19/2008 2:51:51 PM

    McCain???s Double Talk Express

    In 2000 when John McCain was ridding the "Straight Talk Express" he said:
    "If Gearge W. Bush is a reformer I am an astronaut."
    In 2004, with his eye on the presidency, McCain campaigned on Bush's re-election bus, and repeated his well-rehearsed line:
    ''I believe that the president of the United States has led this nation with great strength and clarity, and I believe that he should be re-elected. He is determined to make this world a better, safer, freer place. He deserves not only our support but our admiration."



    As an anti-establishment candidate John McCain denounced pandering to the religious extremists of his party as:
    "Agents of intolerance;"
    To win this years Republican nomination he embraced them :
    I believe that the Christian Right" has a major role to play in the Republican Party.



    On a woman???s right to choose he said:
    "certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."
    After meeting with Jerry Falwell he said:
    "its very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should ??? could overturn Roe v. Wade, which would then return these decisions to the states, which I support."
    Of tax cuts for the rich in war time John McCain said:
    "I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportionate amount that went to the wealthy Americans."
    To win the Republican nomination McCain now supports making those tax cuts permanent


    In 2006 McCain opposed the passage of the Intelligence Authorization Conference insisting that waterboarding was torture, cruel treatment prohibited by Common Article 3 and conduct that shocks the conscience. He said that the Bush Administration's legal analysis had been dishonest and flatly wrong.
    To win this nomination this year McCain voted against the law that banned waterboarding as torture.



    In 2005 he introduced the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill, now he says he would not vote for his own bill.

    Somewhere on the road to the Republican nomination John McCain???s Straight talk express lost it wheels and stalled in double talk of the old Washington insiders.

  • Posted By: maziar @ 02/19/2008 2:51:31 PM

    McCain???s Double Talk Express

    In 2000 when John McCain was ridding the "Straight Talk Express" he said:
    "If Gearge W. Bush is a reformer I am an astronaut."
    In 2004, with his eye on the presidency, McCain campaigned on Bush's re-election bus, and repeated his well-rehearsed line:
    ''I believe that the president of the United States has led this nation with great strength and clarity, and I believe that he should be re-elected. He is determined to make this world a better, safer, freer place. He deserves not only our support but our admiration."



    As an anti-establishment candidate John McCain denounced pandering to the religious extremists of his party as:
    "Agents of intolerance;"
    To win this years Republican nomination he embraced them :
    I believe that the Christian Right" has a major role to play in the Republican Party.



    On a woman???s right to choose he said:
    "certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations."
    After meeting with Jerry Falwell he said:
    "its very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should ??? could overturn Roe v. Wade, which would then return these decisions to the states, which I support."
    Of tax cuts for the rich in war time John McCain said:
    "I voted against the tax cuts because of the disproportionate amount that went to the wealthy Americans."
    To win the Republican nomination McCain now supports making those tax cuts permanent


    In 2006 McCain opposed the passage of the Intelligence Authorization Conference insisting that waterboarding was torture, cruel treatment prohibited by Common Article 3 and conduct that shocks the conscience. He said that the Bush Administration's legal analysis had been dishonest and flatly wrong.
    To win this nomination this year McCain voted against the law that banned waterboarding as torture.



    In 2005 he introduced the Kennedy-McCain immigration bill, now he says he would not vote for his own bill.

    Somewhere on the road to the Republican nomination John McCain???s Straight talk express lost it wheels and stalled in double talk of the old Washington insiders.

  • Posted By: abadreview @ 02/19/2008 2:11:25 PM

    Nobody can stop the recession in my opinion. It's inevitable. A significant decrease in military spending couldn't hurt. For the last 30 years our priorities have been way off track, when military spending is over half of our budget, something is terribly wrong. We spend billions a year in Iraq for what? All intelligence estimates claim that we are no safer than we were before 9/11 (in fact, many experts say we may actually be LESS SAFE), in other words we've been wasting money on an unecessary war. Until we change our spending habits, both individually and collectively, our economy will remain on the rocks.

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