Posted on 15 December 2014. Tags: Afghanistan War, Barack Obama
That would be the Afghanistan War. Putting aside the death and destruction from this immoral folly, if you want to know where the money for bridges went, or the money we could use to shore up pensions might have gone, or the money we could use for EXPANDING Social Security…it’s in the cities, mountains and […]
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Posted on 30 June 2011. Tags: Afghanistan War, Barack Obama, Debt, Defense, Deficits, George Bush, Infrastructure, Iraq War, Jobs, Pentagon, Watson Institute for International Studies
Math is a pretty simple thing–except if you are an elected member of Congress engaging in misdirection, blaming the wrong people and a healthy dose of cognitive dissonance (which requires that you reconcile conflicting realities by blaming, justifying or denying the truth). Which brings us to: why do we have deficits? Well, at least […]
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