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Originally Posted by Bucco
I am not quite sure what point you are trying to make here !
I would doubt if there was much noise from anyone when the Iraq war began. The original cost of, I think, 87B was surely discussed but I think at the time national security took precedence.
Now, over time there was much discussion on the amount of money but most of the debate would end up in the justification for the war.
Now, no matter what the discussion was, we now have a deficit that is light years beyond what it was then and that was done..
1. By nobody in congress even reading the stimulus bill
2. Amid statements by the President that despite this spending he could balance the budget
3. Plans to spend even more money EVEN THOUGH he admits we are out of money.
Then when you add someone like Barney Frank pushing legislation so that any group under indictment could get some of this money (AND that applies ONLY to ACORN) and what I consider a smoke screen...this talking about Iraq as if that money was even in the same league as what is happening in Washdc.
I am trying to understand what your talking about Iraq has to do with what is happening now and if it is ONLY to throw darts at conservative talk show hosts or something...point well taken, but those guys dont make laws or actually spend the money so stop listening to them !
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You don't know what point I'm trying to make because I haven't made the point yet. I've just asked a question, which nobody is willing to answer. I don't remember 87Billion being discussed. I could be wrong but I seem to remember more along the lines of 250Billion being discussed, and laughed at as an unrealistically optimistic figure, and I do remember GW Bush saying something like "whatever it takes" which means, unlike the stimulus package it was essentially a blank check, which has yet to be filled out.
So again, the question, should somebody like to answer a simple yes or no question, with no attempt to justify,
"at that time, when we were preparing for, and undertaking this war, at whatever the projected costs were, at any time, did those who purport to be 'fiscal conservatives' ever publicly make the argument that we should pay as we go rather than pay for the war with deficit spending, in order to keep us from 'mortgaging our children's futures'?"