Please insert 50 cents for the next 10 minutes of liberation...

"The people will be crushed under the burden of taxes, loan after loan will be floated; after having drained the present, the State will devour the future."
Fredric Bastiat, 1850.

Americans would not support the war in Iraq if they had to actually finance it in real time. If we each had to budget and pony up $100 per month (cash or certified check, no credit cards) to finance our military the war would end tomorrow. This is the beauty of the government... they take our money from our check, it is gone, we don't monitor where it goes. We are personally comfortable with not saving and very comfortable with deficit spending. Therefore, a war means zero personal sacrifice (unless you are one of the soldiers that has to do it).

That's not the way it used to be. A decision to go to war was a national committment to sacrifice. It was everyone's responsibility and liability. We desperately need to start financing our wars like we used to, with War Bonds. There was a time when American politicans were just as evil, connected and corrpupt, but they were fiscally-conservative and monetarily-responsible crooks. Now, Bush and congress have a big, blank, bottomless checkbook that they can overdraft until they are no longer accountable. Conservatives tell him how brilliant he is while their kids and grandkids will be stuck with the tab for his chloroform-- fuck the future! That's family values. I'll be an old broke dude. Thank the deity of your choice that I like cat food. If it were not devious, it would be genius!

Call your congress person and suggest the re-implementation of War Bonds to pay for all overseas military activities. No money, no war. Freedom isn't free, right? It's easy for Joe Confederate Flag to scream for a war in the middle east as long as he can still make the payments on his leased Silverado and enjoy a Moon Pie a day and NASCAR on sattleite. Let's present every American with a bill of $100 a month to finance the war, an amount consistent with current projections. See how much the government collects! I'll guess none. We won't have it if we don't get to keep our toys.

Bottom line, if spoiled Americans couldn't afford Tivo, SUV's and the Swiffer Wet Jet because they had to pay for an endless, misconceived war in Iraq, the troops would be home tomorrow and the Bush Imperial Dynasty Attempt II would be a failed memory in the history books.

They know exactly what they are doing. Don't be a sucker.