Response to "Bush Pleads for Money"

In response to Democracy:The Political Skinny's "Bush Pleads For Money"

$200 Billion dollars might be outrageous to a little more than 50 out of 100 degrees, but it is ridiculous to say that we are not keeping our military vehicles and the equipment our troops use safe. Also, if you even research the news and follow up on these proposals, on December 12th, The House passed a $696 billion defense bill which will give $189 billion (roughly Bush's $200) to the war in Iraq an Afghanistan, which Bush is most definitely going to sign.

In this article, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22224958/, it states that the legislation includes a pay raise of 3.5 percent to our troops:
The legislation includes a 3.5 percent pay raise authorized for uniformed service personnel and a guarantee that combat veterans receive swift health evaluations. It also would block fee increases proposed as part of the military’s Tricare health care system.

So, there will be aide for our veterans like you stated wouldn't be in this big hunk of money. Also, a large portion of this is going to aide our Homeland Security and other troops stationed in other countries around the world. So, it is very absurd to say deny this money which is really going to help our troops that (just face it, are not coming out anytime soon) are in the Middle East.

As far as helping our Health care System that was destroyed by Bill Clinton, it is just another problem that many people, that don't mind throwing their money into other peoples pockets, have blown way out of proportion. Our troops are getting great health care and they have free medical for life, as do their families.If you think that we need to try and pay for every bodies health care, you are out of your mind thinking that a $200 billion Iraq fund is big, because everybody in this country would be ravaging up huge medical bills to solve every problem they have, and the money that would be needed would be well over $200 billion a year, and that's something no cigarette tax can handle, so don't even think about it. The only reason smaller countries can handle a universal health care system is just that, they are smaller countries. multiply our 300 million citizens by the average amount a citizen spends on health care a year. This was $924 billion in 1996 according to BNET Research Center and imagine what it is today. How would we ever be able to pay for that?

Also, as far as the starving children in this country, that is a few and far between. No child is "starving", children in third world countries starve, and we have what they call a welfare system that issues food stamps and cards to people for groceries that have children they cannot support. That is where about a fifth of your paycheck goes. So yes, these children are being fed! You are feeding them. This is the result of uneducated people who have created this problem by not trying to make their lives better, and get knocked up and having children their uneducated person cannot support. Sorry but we are a huge nation that cannot afford to be sheltering and feeding every person that decides to be lazy and do nothing with their life. Everyone has a choice to be better in life, and my father left and got his Master's on his own, so don't say it's not their fault cause it very well is.

Lastly, New Orleans... No one in their right mind, that was not trying to get a vote, would say we need to put more money into rebuilding New Orleans. It is in between two bodies of water that are over a hundred feet above the city itself. The only reason there is a city there in the first place is that no one during it's establishment have the knowledge, understanding, or technology to realize that it is smack in the middle of two bodies of water, and one that frequents every year with substantial hurricanes. It is not the governments fault that these people choose to stay there and "rebuild" an already destroyed city, that have a pretty big chance of getting washed away again. It would be money that will literally be washed away in a matter of another hurricane in the Gulf Of Mexico. I don't think that the Government needs to focus on defying Mother Nature because it's an endless battle.