Recently, the Bush administration requested an additional $46.5 billion in funding for Iraq. Now Democrats in the House and Senate (stalwarts that they are) seem poised to go along with it because they don't want to appear soft on supporting the troops before the 2008 elections.
$46.5 billion is $46.5 thousand million. $46,500,000,000.00. The government will not raise taxes (personal or corporate) to generate it. They will borrow it, and pay interest on it primarily overseas. It will come in large...
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