# Congress Approves Additional $82B for Wars **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 10, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215 "2005-05-10T16:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HaNnIBaL64](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hannibal64/32/5954_2.png) [@HaNnIBaL64](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HaNnIBaL64)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/1 "2005-05-10T16:30:01Z")
Congress approved an additional $82 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan and combating terrorism worldwide on Tuesday, boosting the cost of the global effort since 2001 to more than $300 billion. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us\_iraq\_spending](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iraq_spending) what a crock of fuckin shit… ---
**Author:** ![VENOMevo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/venomevo/32/5959_2.png) [@VENOMevo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/VENOMevo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/2 "2005-05-10T16:42:58Z")
_shakes head_ What the hell are they doing… nothing has changed ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/3 "2005-05-10T21:22:43Z")
> [@HaNnIBaL64](#): > > Congress approved an additional $82 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan and combating terrorism worldwide on Tuesday, boosting the cost of the global effort since 2001 to more than $300 billion. > > [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us\_iraq\_spending](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iraq_spending) > > what a crock of fuckin shit… werd. Its sickening. They can make that money appear out of nowhere when they want to start a pointless war, but not to pay down the debt or provide healthcare. ---
**Author:** ![bobby311](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bobby311/32/5971_2.png) [@bobby311](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bobby311)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/4 "2005-05-10T21:48:12Z")
ha ---
**Author:** ![slowcamaro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slowcamaro/32/5975_2.png) [@slowcamaro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowcamaro)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/5 "2005-05-10T23:04:59Z")
i guess you guys have no idea what things costs for us… ---
**Author:** ![Shaggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shaggy/32/5945_2.png) [@Shaggy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shaggy)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/6 "2005-05-10T23:07:43Z")
> [@slowcamaro](#): > > i guess you guys have no idea what things costs for us… give us some insight 🍺 ---
**Author:** ![Jordons\_Pontiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jordons\_Pontiac](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jordons_Pontiac)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/7 "2005-05-10T23:14:27Z")
i don’t think he can tell us cause if he tells us he might have to kill us haha ---
**Author:** ![77rednecktruck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/77rednecktruck/32/5966_2.png) [@77rednecktruck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/77rednecktruck)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/8 "2005-05-11T06:14:07Z")
> [@slowcamaro](#): > > i guess you guys have no idea what things costs for us… I know exactly how much it costs. the fact is, the country is fucked up here and we are spending billions on worthless pieces of shit countries like afganistan and iraq. 2 big ass bombs and 1 bomber could have handled the problem, but instead we decide to fuck around for years(vietnam, haven’t we learned anything) and get nothing accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![brokeasskorean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@brokeasskorean](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brokeasskorean)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/9 "2005-05-11T06:28:42Z")
300 billion!?!?!?!?!?! that would throw a kick ass crack party ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/10 "2005-05-11T06:42:09Z")
> [@brokeasskorean](#): > > 300 billion!?!?!?!?!?! that would throw a kick ass crack party just image if they spit that up & gave an equal ammount to every legal US citizen/or family. have to break it down sometimes, cause its hard to grasp 300billion the population is what…like 300 mill. so that would be $1K to every person…or maybe 10K or so to every family. thats a LOT of money. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/11 "2005-05-11T06:53:02Z")
> **[Cost of National Security](https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/?redirect=cow)** > > What counts as national security depends on your perspective. These embeddable counters track how much the U.S. spends on a variety of programs that protect our future, from military to food assistance. Do our nation's spending choices align with... ---
**Author:** ![S10Blazed\_Si](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/s10blazed_si/32/5983_2.png) [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/12 "2005-05-11T06:58:02Z")
> [@showtime](#): > > just image if they spit that up & gave an equal ammount to every legal US citizen/or family. > > have to break it down sometimes, cause its hard to grasp 300billion > > the population is what…like 300 mill. > > so that would be $1K to every person…or maybe 10K or so to every family. > > thats a LOT of money. They should take that money and have a weekly raffle. Any US citizen that has a job and pays the appriate taxes should get a lottery ticket type thing. Then once a week, the government draw a couple hundred tickets. Have each winner get $500 or something. I sure as hell would like the government more if they did that. Of course it would go corrupt and every politician’s family member would mysteriously get pulled or something. but it would be an incentive to have a job and a good move by the government to put money into OUR economy. :blanyer: ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 10:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/13 "2005-05-11T10:34:16Z")
i thought republicans were for small government and low taxes? spending $300,000,000,000 on wars alone sounds a lot like those damned “tax and spend” Democrats… :rolleyes: same crooks on both sides, the democrats just dress better. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/14 "2005-05-11T12:06:06Z")
& republicas shop on yahoo for large boats ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/congress-approves-additional-82b-for-wars/174215/15 "2005-05-11T16:16:32Z")
That $300 billion applied to the national debt would save us millons of dollars every day in interest.