Says American Thinker:
So the following are facts, based on the government’s own figures.
* Obama‘s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War — more than $100 billion (15%) more.
* Just the first two years of Obama’s stimulus cost more than the entire cost of the Iraq War under President Bush, or six years of that war.
* Iraq War spending accounted for just 3.2% of all federal spending while it lasted.
* Iraq War spending was not even one quarter of what we spent on Medicare in the same time frame.
* Iraq War spending was not even 15% of the total deficit spending in that time frame. The cumulative deficit, 2003-2010, would have been four-point-something trillion dollars with or without the Iraq War.
* The Iraq War accounts for less than 8% of the federal debt held by the public at the end of 2010 ($9.031 trillion).
* During Bush’s Iraq years, 2003-2008, the federal government spent more on education that it did on the Iraq War. (State and local governments spent about ten times more.)
The war cost us under $100 billion a year for eight years, which is small in comparison to Federal spending. So even if you detested the war, one of those that say “Bush’s illegal war”, Obama’s federal spending has done much more harm to the US than the war in Iraq.
The Left really doesn’t care about spending, they only scream about who it’s being spent on. But don’t get me wrong, as the Republicans are just as evil and nefarious as the Democrats. I yearn for the day when we have a real, viable Third Party in US politics.
Until then I will continue to cling to my Guns and my Religion.
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