It's not the economy, it's the stupid war

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Americans will continue to die in George W. Bush's failed war and U.S. taxpayers will continue to pay $12 billion a month to fund his folly but, politically, the war is no longer the issue that drives voters to the polls or determines their vote.

Exit polls in the Ohio and Texas primaries last week show the issue that determined how primary voters cast their ballots was -- survey says -- the economy.

Americans are now more concerned about paying $4 a gallon for gas at the pump and the prospect of losing their home. As a campaign issue, Iraq is dropping faster in the polls than Bush's approval ratings.

Of course, the Iraq war is a direct cause of the economic problems that now top voter concerns. You can't spend $12 billion a month in a far away war without it dragging down the economy back home. The old conventional wisdom that war is good for the economy doesn't play out this time.

But cause means a lot less than effect in politics. Voters are, by nature, a selfish lot. They care a hell of a lot more about their own self-interests than they do about more global issues that affect this nation.

Voters need to understand that their empty pockets are directly related to that far-away war that is now Page 2 news and a back-burner issue.

Local governments are going broke because they can't afford to buy gas for school buses or collect taxes from foreclosed homes. State governments that depend so much on federal funds find those funds shrinking or gone because the fed is diverting all its resources to pay the $12 billion a month bill in Iraq.

So when voters say the number one issue is the economy they are really saying the number one issue is an economy devastated by the high cost of an illegal and immoral war.

Too bad they don't realize that simple fact.

Capitolhillblue

Entry #665

Comments

Avatar Tenaj -
#1
No Pac, didn't you know, it's supply and demand, Economics 101. What's wrong with you stupid people. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain.
Avatar Todd -
#2
I think there is something "stupid", and it's not the war.
Avatar pacattack05 -
#3
Tenaj, I think the bubble headed bleached blonde on the news got you brain washed real good.

I wonder what this country could do for it's own people with 400 million bucks a day. Hmmm...
Avatar Tenaj -
#4
Dude, calm down. I agree with you. I was joking...tongue in the cheek.
Avatar Tenaj -
#5
More than 75% of the people disagree with you Todd. Seventy five percent of America is stupid, huh?
Avatar JAP69 -
#6
or collect taxes from foreclosed homes. [BUNK]
You can not close the paper work on a piece of property until all tax liens are satisfied.
If someone buys a forclosed home at a tax sale the taxes must be satisfied as well.
The economy mainly is in a downturn with the crunch on consumer borrowing.
This country no longer survives on cash purchases and borrowing for major things only.

All these credit cards have ruined this country.
Avatar pacattack05 -
#7
Sorry Tenaj, I wasn't sure if you were joking or not, but It was a 50/50 bet I had to make...lol

12 billion a month on this crappy war.

4000 dead soldiers.

???? many Iraqi civilians and military.

We sold Saddam weapons of mass destruction back in the 80s and we and the rest of the world turned a blind eye when Saddam used it on his own people because we hated Iran and were happy that the Iraqis could fight them. But now we all of a sudden care about the WMDs? and what Saddam did to his prisoners? What a joke. Why aren't we just as concerned about North Korea and the countless starving people who live in constant misery while that dictator lives high on the hog.

I wonder how much fuel it takes to run all those tanks and planes for this war.

There are billions of dollars missing and no one knows who stole it. All they are doing is blowing everything up over there. We build a bridge and they blow it up.

600 billion dollars already spent, and they talk about staying ther for decades. Meanwhile, we have homeless veterans sleeping in the streets. Bush lowered the aid for wounded and suffering soldiers and first responders during 9-11, from 125 miliion down to 25 million. There are countless people who were the first responders during 9-11 who are currently suffering from many ailments, and the president cuts their aid. I guess it's ok to spend hundreds of billions to kill people but not enough to help our own.

This is truly sad, and if anyone can't see the atrocity here then I don't know what else I can say.

This wonderful country to which I served in the Navy for 4 years is gonna hit the bottom because of greed and bad management. Too many people who have too much power with too much greed. Plain and simple.

The cost of rising fuel prices has many independent truck drivers who are now spending around a thousand bucks to fill their tanks, having the repo guy come and take it away from them because they can't pay the bills. Flour, milk, eggs, services and many more are costing more and more. It's gonna get much worse, and if you think this police state which reun by a fascist president and his cronies is going to give us a break, you got another thing coming.

Goodbye America....Welcome one world government.
Avatar Tenaj -
#8
The economy mainly is in a downturn with the crunch on consumer borrowing.

And the man behind the curtain are the terms. It's not the borrowing - it's the terms. Our economy have always worked well on borrowing. It's the big companies that hold the government and the aces and they call what's wild.
Avatar time*treat -
#9
Pac, we are going to have to up your dosage of repugnican kool-aid, you are not goose-stepping in line with the drumbeat of war :-)
Avatar pacattack05 -
#10
Time*treat, the problem is that everytime I drink some of that Kook-aid, I throw up that poison in the toilet....lol

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