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Originally Posted by sperry
If you want to figure out a way to reduce wasted taxpayer money, you're barking up the wrong tree. How about we stop spending $100B/year on wars first. For the amount we've spent on Iraq, we could give each undocumented worker in the US $65,000. We literally spend *half* of the US taxpayers money on the military in this country, and that *doesn't* include the additional $100B/year we spend on Iraq.
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If anyone wants a little perspective about the amount of money we have spent fighting in & "reconstructing" Iraq, I read it's currently somewhere around $450billion. The annual budget for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the two big nuclear weapons labs in this country, is about $1.6billion. You do the math. The money we've burned in Iraq alone (let alone all our other military deployments) could have built & operated several premiere new national research labs for DECADES. Think about the kind of energy research that could have been done at those facilities.