Your Tax Dollars At Odds

Check it out: the people WE pay to represent us, namely the U.S. House of Representatives, gave final approval on Tuesday to a massive funding bill for the Pentagon that provides $70 billion on top of the already $430 billion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The House passed it 394-22 with virtually no debate. Why no debate? One guess. Give up? OUR lawmakers are too busy scrambling to finish up so they can really dig into campaigning for the November elections -- so they can get back to DC and spend more of our money. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper just to buy all our troops first class tickets back to the US once and for all.