Iraq Making Billions - U.S. Paying For Reconstruction?
Iraq Making Billions Off Oil - But U.S. Still Paying For Reconstruction? — by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at Care2 Election Blog)
Iraq is making billions over skyrocketing oil prices. But the U.S. taxpayer continues to pay billions for the Iraq reconstruction. What is that about? How can our government just watch, as American families are struggling to keep their heads above water? The American people are getting scraps (or $600 dollars), while our government continues to throw billions of our tax dollars at the Iraqi’s as if it were Mardi Gras beads. I honestly don’t know how Bush and his administration can even sleep at night.
This is from American Citizen News Network…
Just over a month ago I wrote a post on this same subject. But evidently the American taxpayers don’t care, for if they did, they would be screaming by the hundreds of thousands on the front lawn of the White House and the steps of Congress. Instead we are screaming at each other over whose political party wears a halo over their head and whose political party has horns growing out of their heads. But why should we care if the Iraqi’s are screwing us; we are letting our politicians take our money every day and give it away to those who already have more than they can spend. And who can blame Iraq?
From The Crypt’s Blog…
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said the continued heavy spending by the United States on funding the military campaign in Iraq is a problem for the American people, particularly as the Iraqi government is running up a budget surplus.
“It’s a burr in the side of the American people that the Iraqi government has a budget surplus while we have massive budget deficits,” McCaskill said. With oil prices hovering in the $100-per-barrel range, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is projecting a budget surplus in the area of $50 billion this year.
How do you feel about U.S. tax dollars being spent to rebuild Iraq?
Comment from Isaac Newton Kinity
Time: August 2, 2008, 5:16 pm
It is time Americans come together to solve their problems regardless of their party affiliation and their political differemces. It is time to reason together as brothers and sisters of one great Nation called The United States Of America. Pointing fingers at one another now will not help and neither will name calling and blaming one another help. All Americans should focus themselves on solving the problems afecting their lives. Each and every American should think hard to research for an answer to the problems. The problems before the American people are not big if there is unity of reasoning together. If the Iraq people are now peaciful enough to make such big surpluses, the US should now turn to the problems at home. In three years, The US will have recovered fully and there will be signs of going for surpluses if we unite for this genuine course.