"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Congress Funds Wars With Billions to Spare
"?After the president signs a $106 billion emergency supplemental, the U.S. will have shelled out about $1 trillion in 'emergency' funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?not including the Pentagon's obscene annual budget, exponentially expanding health care costs for wounded troops, and the interest on all that debt.?"
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