Is there no good news in the world? There's precious little in this thread.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

So in one breath you say, WB, that it immoral to use the tax dollars of those who oppose the war to support it and also that it is acceptable and even morally required (based on what I interpret your tone to be) to use the tax dollars of others to pay for welfare, housing, and medicare regardless of how they feel about those programs. It is not my intent to debate those programs now. I just find it interesting that tax dollars for what you support is OK, but not for what you don't support.

I, too, find your priorities most interesting. The people that are the most vocal against helping those at home are the most eager to shovel it out to the Pentagon and Halliburton, etc, whose excesses, waste and flat out ineptitude are the stuff of legend. (How is the body armor situation these days? The water purification that Halliburton was paid a fortune to do and didn't, exposing our troops to all sorts of horrid diseases from the wastewater they were drinking?) Meh. Tell me about how it feels to have some people abusing a system you pay into- pretty damned frustrating, isn't it? What really sucks is that it's the people in charge that are doing it.