$2.7 Billion Per Day on War

I vowed not to get on today for my to do list is ever so long. BUT I will make an exception and post this as I think we should all ask congress for a halt to this spending.

Let's not start a "war" on this subject. I think we can all agree that this has to be stopped and that we should all ask Congress to stop spending so much money on war and start directing more money toward positive change today. It is on my to do list today - right after signing out.

Thanks and have a great weekend SoWal gang. Dems, republicans, libertarians, and all!!

Gidget

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Every day the United States spends $2.7 billion on war. At a time when debate is raging in Washington about how to pay for basic services that we all need, like health care, it just doesn't make sense to be spending such a staggering amount on war.

Last year alone we spent nearly $1 trillion dollars on wars past and present. The debate surrounding the cost of health care reform could be largely resolved for a fraction of that amount. The same is true for the debate over clean energy and many other important domestic programs ranging from improving education to job training.

For 8 years under the Bush administration, spending on wars and the military expanded dramatically. It is time to reduce that bloat. We don't need wars of choice, we don't need expensive weapons programs that have proven ineffective, and we don't need military spending to take up more than half of the federal discretionary budget.

Our leaders in Washington need to know that the time has come to reduce our spending on war and instead fund the things we really need - like healthy communities, functioning schools, good jobs, and an end to the recession. All it would take is a slight shift in our priorities, and a slight change in our spending, to have a big impact.

The only flaw in the argument here - who says government spending on these things will make them any better for anyone?

How about we do this, lets cut back on the amount we spend on war, and lets cut back on the amount we spend on everything else.!

Here's how you tell the difference between political affiliation in Washington:

Democrats: "Lets stop spending on this, and start spending on that."

Republicans: "Lets stop spending on that, and start spending on this."

Conservatives: "Lets spend on this, and once were done, stop spending."

Libertarians: "Lets stop spending on this, this, this this, that, that other thing, this over here, that, that other thing, this and that."