Rural Broadband Funding Push > Mixed up Priorities

Mixed up Priorities

said by Estragon:

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87 billion for the Iraqi's, and we can't even find 20 million for rural Americans.

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Forget foreign affairs, what about domestic affairs? What about America? Don't we too have a country to run and build? I pay taxes, I want to see my tax dollars come to the community not go half way across the globe to finish "daddy's war".

my 2 cents.
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said by broadbndgeek:

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Forget foreign affairs, what about domestic affairs? What about America? Don't we too have a country to run and build? I pay taxes, I want to see my tax dollars come to the community not go half way across the globe to finish "daddy's war".

my 2 cents.

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DEMOCRATIC BABY!!!

I can't wait to see this joke of a president bush out of office.

Though I agree with you (about wanting him out), to be fair, it was one of the more solid things Bush assisted with, by passing the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 in the first place....

reply to lxAstrosxl
it doesn't matter who is in office the Telco's et al will pay off whom ever is in power.

reply to Omega
-nah, nevermind.

reply to broadbndgeek
Just take 1% out of the 396 billion dollar defense budget and you can feed most of America. Kind of annoys me that we "have" to keep troops station in countries like Japan or Korea, there is just no need anymore. Other countries do not want us there, and most Americans do not want us there.

I'm also curious, do you guys think that World War 3 is ever going to happen? America seems to think so if they're going to pump this much cash in defense... I think that the world is civilized, not full of barbarians, but I guess Bush thinks otherwise.

reply to lxAstrosxl

said by lxAstrosxl:

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DEMOCRATIC BABY!!!

I can't wait to see this joke of a president bush out of office.

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reply to Estragon
Is this intentional misinformation or do you just know the facts?

$65.6 billion: Military Costs: The majority of the proposal is for the Department of Defense:
$41.1 billion: Ops & maint.
$17.8 billIon: Personnel costs
$5.4 billion: Procurement
$624 million: Fuel and repairs
$412 million: Construction
$360 million: Other

$20.3 billion: Reconstruction costs: Funds go to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund for use by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
$5.67 billIon: Electricity
$5.13 billion: Security (justice system and Iraqi police)
$3.7 billion: Public works
$2.1 billion: Rehabilitate and repair oil infrastructure
$875 million: Water resources
$850 million: Health
$835 million: Transportation and telecommunications
$470 million: Housing
$353 million: Private sector
$300 million: Human rights

Source: msnbc.com

reply to lxAstrosxl
Go ahead and throw your vote away, you will still have to wait 4 more years.

I'd rather be Jackson then a f*cked up Calhoun.

(from last week's SNL)

"...by next summer, every home in Iraq will have central air conditioning and high-speed broadband internet access."

And that didn't even sound sarcastic.