On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:44:36 GMT, kontiki
wrote in :

Larry Dighera wrote:

Consider $3-billion a week in Iraq for five years, or much longer
depending..., and the money-sink of a blundering Department of
Homeland Security. It is those useless expenditures that are
consuming the wealth of our nation.


Larry please... please research and discover that the US spends
THREE times as much on entitlements (welfare and other handouts)
as it does the military.

Unlike the examples I mentioned, Social Security and Medicare benefit
the people of this country directly, and do not _needlessly_ squander
our nation's treasure for the benefit of large corporations like
Bechtel and Halliburton.