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Wouldn’t the liberal Keynesian theory advocate extra government spending to boost the faltering economy? Sounds like we ought to start another war…

“Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil… a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unision.” - Milan Kundera

One group of programs supports widows, orphans, the sick and disabled.
The other produces them.

The problem is oil. OPEC are controlling the price of oil.

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One group of programs supports widows, orphans, the sick and disabled.  The other produces them.

Entitlement programs create widows, orphans, the sick and disabled at a far more prodigious rate than this war does.  Been to the LBC recently?  Westside?

It used to be that liberalism stood for a morally responsible position, in which the enormous social consequences that your suck-assed welfare programs have had on the poor would have been decried long ago.  These days it’s all about expediency and zippy sound bites.  Fantastic.

Rob, here to make an obvious comparison.  If you put earmark spending on that graph, it would be basically a thin vertical line.  While I worry about the social consequences (e.g., corruption) of earmarks, I think it’s a fallacious argument to bring up the impact of the economy of either earmarks or the war in Iraq.

Next they’ll tell us the Iraq War is causing global warming.

Next they’ll tell us the Iraq War is causing global warming.

Are you saying that it is not..?  Does the war also cause global cooling..?

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Next they’ll tell us the Iraq War is causing global warming.

I’m sure that you’re right Ken.  And mind numb drones that will believe anything they are told will go right along with the liberals.  We need to fight this tooth and nail.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

Guns don’t kill people, charity kills people Carrick?

A sturdy beggar is to be whipped the first time, his right ear cropped the second time, and if he again offends, to be sent to the next gaol till the quarter sessions, and there to be indicted for wandering, loitering, and idleness, and if convicted, shall suffer execution of death as a felon and an enemy of the commonwealth.

Sturdy Beggars

We need to fight this tooth and nail.

Why don’t you just argue like a gentleman instead of biting and scratching?

your figures for the cost of the war are bogus. what about afghanistan? is that someone else’s war all of the sudden? do we get to conveniently NEVER TALK ABOUT IT?
we are fighting the ‘war on terror’, no? let’s see THOSE FIGURES.
also, don’t forget to include the longterm care expenses for wounded vets.
you are a patent liar when it comes to spending statistics Rob.

Wouldn’t the liberal Keynesian theory advocate extra government spending to boost the faltering economy? Sounds like we ought to start another war…

You would think that it would be good for the economy but the defeatocrats can’t surrender fast enough so they can spend the money on something else.

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Why don’t you just argue like a gentleman instead of biting and scratching?

It’s a figure of speech Sparkie.  I apologize if it confused you.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

your figures for the cost of the war are bogus. what about afghanistan? is that someone else’s war all of the sudden? do we get to conveniently NEVER TALK ABOUT IT?
we are fighting the ‘war on terror’, no? let’s see THOSE FIGURES.
also, don’t forget to include the longterm care expenses for wounded vets.
you are a patent liar when it comes to spending statistics Rob.

My figures for the Iraq war are not bogus, they are entirely accurate.  And the fact that I didn’t include Afghanistan totals does not make me a liar.

Rep. Yarmuth of Kentucky was talking, specifically, about Iraq war spending.  Since that was the context of his argument, I rebutted with the actual spending numbers from that conflict.

Had he mentioned Afghanistan, I would have as well.  But this is an appropriate response because, generally, Democrats (and I’m sure Yarmuth is no different) have said that the war in Afghanistan was a legitimate and necessary operation whereas Iraq isn’t.

I’d suggest that even including numbers from Afghanistan the total spending from both wars would still be a drop in the bucket compared to entitlement spending (especially considering that all the defense and war spending from the entire world doesn’t add up to our entitlements bill), so even then my point stands.

I’ll accept your apology for calling me a liar any time now.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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all you guys are so stupid and you dont need to worry about the war just worry about your own life and worry about what is going on in the united states and not some other country. unless you are in the war, going to the war, or have someone that you know in the war there is no reason to worry about it