The true cost of war. So think about it and vote
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vote? what now?
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who for?
- kelpie0
- her lips are lighter than her face. That's just not right.kelpie
- still would thoughkelpie
- I'll need to see the other entrants before I vote though, idealkelpie
- I have an instant loathing of anyone who purses their lips like that. Still, nice paps.detritus
- lovely stuff, although you guys do realise thats what wiches look like!!!..chossy
- "I'll need to see the other entrance before I vote though..."********
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lol @ yumdrop.
- vespa0
looks like a very interesting book. thanks for posting
"the troops, for understandable reasons, are made responsible for their equipment. You lose your helmet, you have to pay. If you get blown up and you lose your helmet, they still bill you." One soldier was sued for $12,000 even though he had suffered massive brain damage. Some families have had to buy their children body armour, saving the government costs in the short term; those too poor to afford it sustain injuries that the government then has to pay for. "
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Because "the saving rate [in America] is zero," says Stiglitz, "that means that you have to finance [the war] by borrowing abroad. So China is financing America's war." The US is now operating at such a deficit, in fact, that it doesn't have the money to bail out its own banks. "When Merrill Lynch and Citibank had a problem, it was sovereign funds from abroad that bailed them out. And we had to give up a lot of shares of our ownership. So the largest shareowners in Citibank now are in the Middle East. It should be called the MidEast bank, not the Citibank."- did you watch the video posted here yesterday - it covered alot of this and the debt problem america hasmaximillion_