So what else could we have spent the money from Obama's Porkulus bill on?

Well now that Obama and the Democrats have picked our pockets and raided our bank accounts for years to come to the tune of 787 billion dollars (most of which will be wasted on projects that enrich those who supported the Dems and paying off the mortgages of irresponsible people who bought houses that they could not afford, articles like the ones at the Boston Globe and StoptheACLU got me to thinking what else we could have blown all that money on.

According to The Globe, it could have paid off all of the student loan debt in the country, with over 230 billion dollars left over. Stopthe ACLU figured out that it could pay for Oh--and it could also pay for 1,210,769,230 3 day packages to Disney World, including airfare, meals and the obligatory set of mouse ears. (So basically we're all each PAYING for a trip to Disney World, courtesy of Obama and Congress. We're just not going to get to go.)

So what else could we buy with $787,000,000,000?

Well I could go to the Civilian Marksmanship Program store at Camp Perry and buy 11,746,268,656 cans of .30-06 ammunition. At 240 rounds per can, that works out to 2,819,104,477,440 rounds. Lagniappe and I could shoot for quite a while. I guess that we'd better break out the Browning 1919A4 for this one. At 150 rounds per minute--the gun's maximum rate for sustained fire--it would take us 35,757 years to fire it all if we shot 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and that's without stopping to change barrels or hit the head.

But Lagniappe would rather eat pig's ears than shoot. He loves those pig's ears that Petco sells for $1.49 each. The 787 billion dollars could buy him 528,187,919,463 of those delicious treats. Hope you're hungry, fella.

One could also buy 984,365,228 plasma television sets, about three for every man, woman and child in this country. Of course many of the welfare homes already have one or more plasma TV's, so subtracting for that, there'd easily be enough left over to pay for cable TV hook-ups for everyone as well.

So what would YOU buy with $787,000,000? It is your money, after all. Most creative submission gets honorable mention and possibly a German Shepherd dog. Please show your work, and yes, the math needs to work out.

Troop spending bill exposes Democrats' true motivation

This story in today's Washington Post touches on the mater, but the Post's liberal bias downplays or ignores two important facts concerning the Dems' spending bill.

First of course is the fact that the bill is supposed to be about providing funds for our troops so that they can win the war and come home. But typical of the Dems, they added over twenty billion dollars for their own pet projects, or into the districts of other legislators that hadn't been inclined to vote for the bill before. (Anywhere but the Capitol, that would be called "a bribe".) Some of those "emergency war expenditures" covered things like $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers and $100 million for citrus growers. It also includes $16 million to convert the old Food and Drug Administration building in southwest D.C. into more office space for the Capitol. That "emergency" expenditure comes at a time when taxpayers already shell out $600 million "more than double the original estimate" for a mammoth expansion of the Capitol, which includes 160,000 feet of new office space.

None of that is related to the war at all and shouldn't have been tacked on, especially by the party that's been screaming that the war is costing so much. Well one reason that it costs so much is that certain members of congress are inflating the cost and funneling they money back into their own pork projects.

The second thing that's critical--and the Post completely omits this--is that the Dems are claiming that they want to stop the war and pull our troops out. They put a provision into the bill requiring our troops' withdrawal from Iraq, but they aren't to be withdrawn now. Oh no. The bill calls for them to be withdrawn in August, 2008--in the middle of the next electoral campaign. You see, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid and their followers want to use the pullout for political advantage, and they intend for our troops to stay in Iraq until election time, at which point they'll be forced to leave so that Dems running for election or re-election can scream: "look at the failure of the Bush Administration's war!" That's appalling on so many levels and if there were really justice in America, citizens from all over the country would converge on the Capitol and just start moving the furniture and possessions of legislators like Pelosi and Reid out to the curb. They should be evicted from office for this massive breach of the public trust.
If they really wanted the troops out of Iraq, they could have called for them to be removed tomorrow. But they aren't interested in that. They want our men and women to stay over there and fight a war that they claim is wrong, and continue to take casualties that they say our troops should not be suffering for 18 more months so that the pullout can help them politically in their efforts to seize control of our nation not based on Democrat accomplishments but on the perception of Bush failure which they the Democrats, are contriving to bring about...but not until it's to their benefit, of course.

I as an American call "foul" and demand that every Democrat against the war say so and either vote to pull our troops out immediately or just shut up about it forever.