'America is in a deep financial crisis, and to listen to Washington or MSNBC you’d never know it'

from digitaljournal..........

"Let’s put things in perspective. The U.S. has hit its debt ceiling. This comes as bad news, because we’re currently fighting 3 un-winnable wars. No, it’s not just Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re also fighting a war on drugs (hard approaching our 40th anniversary.) According to USA Today, we’ve spent 24.2 billion dollars from January to June on the war on drugs. 


One thinks of George Carlin who used to describe his farts: “hey man, they don’t smell that bad," but extrapolate the 24.2 billion over 40 years, and you hit something like 1.2 trillion dollars (that’s spelled with a t) and it smells pretty bad to me.

In Afghanistan we spend over 6.7 per month and according to the Washington Post we’ve spent over 3 trillion dollars on the war in Iraq."...................LINK