The Bill For Iraq, So Far

$20,900 per family. All on the government credit card, because Chimpy is unwilling to increase taxes to help pay for the war.

Name one war that the United States has fought in the past where there was no call for sacrifice on the part of the American people.

Name one war in the past where the government didn't try to at least pay for part of the cost of the war with a "war tax" or several.

Name one war in the past where the government decided to "let the good times roll" and borrowed every fucking penny of the cost of the war.

$20,900 per family. All to be paid by you, your children and your grandchildren. All in the future.

Over one and one half trillion dollars. That's $1,600,000,000,000. Put one dollar bill on top of another, do that 1.6 trillion times and by the time you were done, you'd be over 40% of the way to the Moon. Every one of those dollars accrues interest, so even if we spent nothing more, that stack would grow 5,000 miles closer to the Moon, and that's without compounding. That's about $80,000,000,000 that we have to pay out of the Federal budget each year in debt service.

All for Chimpy's wars.

And that's just the monetary bill, it's not the butcher's bill.

One thing ought to be clear by now: If Chimpy is not worse than Franklin Pierce, his distant ancestor, he's in the same category.