Once again, they present a choice of going along with the bloated, wasteful, politically-motivated, crony-rewarding plan, or you're just not trying to get us out of it.

He's a political independent, so he says, but he can only think like a Democrat. Well then, what's the difference?

These Communists are always going on and on about the "military-industrial complex" and how the Conservatives like war because it's good for business.  But this war apparently wasn't good for business?

BTW, I know it was Eisenhower who coined the term 'military-industrial complex'.  Personally, I think he was pretty limp as SHAEF commander...should have let Patton loose a lot earlier against the Germans and later against the Russians, thus saving millions of lives because of the violence and oppression of the Communist Bloc.

But, it's hard to argue with success...no matter how many GIs were needlessly sacrificed I suppose.

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

THis is of course NONSENSE.

The US defense outlay now WITH the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan makes up signicantly less of the percentage of the budget as Defense made in 1938 when we were unprepared for war.

THe army is significantly smaller, the Airforce about the same size and the Navy is smaller now than in the pre-WWII era.

What has grown since then?  Social programs which have EXPLODED! 

The Congressional Research Service (October, 2008) reports spending on the war on terror as:

This $864 billion total covers all war-related appropriations from FY2001 through part of FY2009 in supplementals, regular appropriations, and continuing resolutions. Of that total, CRS estimates that Iraq will receive about $657 billion (76%), OEF about $173 billion (20%), and enhanced base security about $28 billion (3%), with about $5 billion that CRS cannot allocate (1%).

You can read any newspaper to date and find that the current stimulus amounts are about $2 trillion including bank bailouts, the stimulus bill, etc.

This all proves that there are old fools, there d**n fools, and that there is Al Neuharth.  Al, when you can put some facts behind your rants other than PROJECTED spending including interest and obama's future spending, come on back.

FYI, Al, your economics also sucks.  Both spending groups are bad; however, Iraq had some possibility of preventing ANOTHER 9/11, while your "Stimulus" bill throws money away at projects which should not be done and in many cases allow bad decisions to continue. 

One bad example of spending:  BO "saved" 25 cop jobs in Columbus, OH.  For how long?  When the stimulus spending is gone, the doofus mayor will cut these jobs again rather than cut things like live-in partner benefits and other parts of his bloated budget.  The spending in Columbus, Ohio has been out of control since the
Democrats took over the whole City Council and Mayor's office about 8
years ago.

All of the city and state bailouts are exactly like this.  Only die-hard socialists like you won't admit that the federal government should not be propping up loser states like California.

Thank God that the Republicans finally got some stones to not spend like drunken sailors on economic stimulus.

"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."

G. W. F. Hegel

you're irrelevant.  And your paper is nothing but fishwrap, or maybe bird cage liner.  As has been demonstrated by everyone upthread, you have no grasp of economics, world events, or common sense.  So, just go back to giving the Obamunist his daily tongue bath, like you do now, and STFU....

Neuharth scolded Republicans: “Both parties got us into this mess, but only one is trying to get us out of it.”

He could have very easily continued with........."and only one party has ever wanted America to win it, with the other only wanting loss completely carefree of consequences."

Neuharth is as worthless as his newspaper is.

Does this idiot not realize that since this dumb assed empty suit has been in power we have spent MORE THAN ONE BILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR!!! 

WE COULD HAVE GIVEN EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY OVER 18 THAT VOTED ONE MILLION DOLLARS EACH AND STILL HAVE COME OUT AHEAD!!

IT'S IDIOT'S LIKE HIM THAT NEED TO JUST SHUT-UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR HE WILL GET RUN OVER.  ONE BILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR PEOPLE!!!  ONE BILLION DOLLARS AN HOUR AND THEY HIRED 25 NEW POLICE OFFICERS!!! THAT'S IT, THAT'S ALL WE GET FOR OVER A TRILLION DOLLARS OF OUR MONEY!!

How close is USA Today to going out of business?  Close I hope.

When I watch and listen to old fools like this I no longer wonder why teachers are banging the students and grown men, and women, are raping new born babies. If you collected all the brains in the democrat party and inplanted them in a Hummingbird it would try to fly upside down on one wing. Too much rattling noise inside the skull, like a BB in the hull of an aircraft carrier.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

This idiot bloviates and wants to lay the blame for the country's financial mess on our efforts in Iraq then will sit there and rake in the profits from all of the subscriptions to Army, Navy and Air Force Times by the soldiers out there in harms way reading his fish wrap.

For those that don't know all of the Military Times publications are put out by Gannett News Services.

They are NOT our friend. 

"I May Be Changed By War, But I Will Not Be Defeated By It" - Audie Murphy