A House subcommittee appropriated another $45 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, bringing total military costs to more than $300 billion. The Pentagon had just received $76 billion for the wars from an $82 billion emergency bill Congress passed this month.
But fiscal discipline is still in effect, you see. Republicans just recently passed a budget that “would shave automatically increasing benefit programs by $35 billion over five years while also cutting taxes by as much as $106 billion over the same period. Medicaid gets marked for a $10 billion reduction over four years.”
Avoiding an illegal invasion could have saved more money. (This way it’s more convenient to slash funding for social programs.) Oh but nevermind, we should just move on and ‘get over’ the deception. Impunity today, impunity tomorrow, impunity forever!
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