The Senate approved a $94.5 billion emergency spending bill today for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for hurricane Katrina damage. Most of the money, about 70% of it, is going to the Pentagon. This brings the cost of Iraq to $320 billion and $89 billion for Afghanistan. The bill passed 98-1 with Senator Arlen Specter, R-PA, the only dissenting vote.
Spector is pushing to spend money on things like education and health for Americans which is a no-no for the current administration. Its war or bust. The main question that should be asked and isn't, is where is the billions of dollars going? Katrina recover has barely scratched the surface and fraud is rampant. Iraq and Afghanistan, can't see the money there either. The books are poorly kept, the money horribly monitored and I bet if an actually audit is ever done, most of the money isn't even going to where it needs to. Nevermind where the money is even coming from with the multitude of tax cuts.
You already have Haliburton being given carte blanche to so whatever the hell that companies want to to do and they are the main contractors for Katrina, Iraq and Afghanistan, all of which the last three or so emergencies bill have been for. They are also a company that some how seems to have the money to sub contract out the work its doing to companies that then also have the money to sub-sub contract the work out. Its mighty suspicious to me that companies are getting paid so where via their contracts that they don't even have to do t he work to make a profit, they can just get someone else to do it. The American tax payer is basically paying them to be the middleman who just takes their large cut and doesn't do much else.
I guess as long as the words "freedom", "security" and "9/11" continue to get tossed around haphazardly, the public will just eat it up and accept it as normal business (nevermind that if Clinton had done this the republicans would have hung him by his balls).
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