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Tax and Spend Liberals... Do the Math

By Paul de Jong - Mar 20th, 2008 at 5:44 am EDT

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Tags: Iraq, McCain, War

McCain will undoubtedly use the "Tax and Spend" claim against Barack Obama's foreign aid packages. I would welcome that attack. It is an empty claim that can not be supported and is easily countered.

If we were to have used the over One Trillion dollars spent on the Iraq war we could fund the foreign aid packages as proposed in the Obama plan for over two centuries! If we can come up with that kind of money to wage a war that is arguably a setback to our safety, we should have no problem at all coming up with 1/200th of that money to actually promote our safety, help others, help restore our good name as well as our pride as International citizens.

Here is an exert from a speech made by Avram Noam Chomsky on September 16th, 2001:

"Two distinct possibilities seem the most likely candidates for the goal: 1) revenging the killings, and 2) ending terrorism... If we want to end terrorism, we must do what is needed to change the perception a large proportion of humanity holds of America, that we are an exploiting nation which favors the rich and powerful over the poor and weak. Perhaps their view of us is unfair, but in achieving our goal of ending terrorism, that matters little. Their perception is what they act on, so it is their perception we must change. There is only one way to do so. We must bring as much good as we can to as many people of the world as we can, including the poor and underprivileged of our own nation. It will require just as much time, money, work, ingenuity, and sacrifice as the bloodiest war. The results will often be discouraging, progress imperceptible, but our courage must hold and the work must go on. If it does and if it succeeds, we will have won by far the greatest victory of our history. And in achieving it we will not have sent our sons and daughters to kill and die, but to build and celebrate with all the races of the world."

I posted the full text on http://thinkofasolution.com/noam_chomsky_on_9-11/index.html. It is worth reading.

~Paul

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