Originally posted by Killuminati
I talk to a lot of Bush supporters, and one thing is utterly clear in the majority of them. They see only what they want to believe
Allow me to demonstrate
Iraq War is stopping terrorism
Bush is for protecting mankind
Iraq War was started on concrete evidence
Bush is a great president
Bush protects the environment
The world loves Bush
Post War Iraq is going great
Bush is doing a great job with the economy
........it goes on & on
Obviously none of this is true, yet they believe it. They even do this with FACTS, and change them around to adapt to their thinking.
Is there a psychological term for this? And does anybody else notice this?
Yes. I believe they do have psychological problems. They all seem about as delusional as he is, if not much more.
The Cost of Rebuilding Iraq
Here are some of the things we're spending money on, and some additional things Bush would like to spend money on, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and some comparisons to what we're spending in the U.S.
Health Care
In Iraq, we are spending $850 billion to build hospitals, health clinics and fill them with medical equipment. $150 million of that is for a new children’s hospital. Meanwhile, half of Iraq’s population will receive basic health care.
In America, 5.8% more of the population is uninsured – for a total of nearly 44 million Americans. Hospital emergency rooms are closing their doors to them, while insurance premiums are skyrocketing beyond what businesses can afford for their workers.
Electricity
In Iraq, we are spending $5.6 billion to completely rebuild the electricity infrastructure
But in America, there’s not one single dollar in the Energy bill to protect our cities from another blackout
Housing
In Iraq, we’re going to spend $100 million for 7 new housing communities
In America, there’s only room in the budget for 5,000 new low-income housing units. In my district, bungalows are crumbling and third-generation families are losing their homes.
Water
In Iraq, we’re spending nearly 5 billion to repair irrigation systems, wetlands and restore safe drinking water. We have already rebuilt the Port of Umm Qasar and opened it to commercial traffic.
But in America, Army Corps of Engineer projects are frozen, and we’re not devoting a single dollar to protecting the future of the Great Lakes, which provides safe drinking water to 28 million Americans.
Witness Protection
In Iraq, we’re spending $100 million to protect witnesses and their families who testify against corrupt government officials.
In America, we spent only $28 million on witness protection. The State of California – with 15 million more residents than Iraq – spent only $3 million a year on its witness protection program.
And here are a few proposed items:
$20 million to finance 200 election experts for 6 months
$10 million to build four industrial parks and 50 crop-and-livestock markets
$9 million on Iraq’s tax collection
$8 million for an Afghan Highway Patrol
$3 million to meet the government's payroll through next June and $30 million to protect President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan
Here are the results of Bush’s economic plan since 2001:
3.1 million more Americans are without work
2.4 million more Americans are uninsured
4 million more Americans have fallen from the middle class into poverty and
Nearly $1 trillion in assets have been foreclosed on
www.house.gov...
Anyone care to add these numbers up?
Bush's economic plan
3.1 million more Americans are without work.
2.4 million more Americans are uninsured.
4 million more Americans have fallen from the middle class into poverty and.
Nearly $1 trillion in assets have been foreclosed on.
And add what we've accomplished in our war on terrorism, and regime change,
90% of Afghanistan is not under the control of the new government.
We haven't caught bin Laden.
We haven't found any weapons of mass destruction.
We don't have Saddam Hussein.
Americans continue to be killed in Iraq almost every day.
We've already spent hundreds of billions of dollars on these wars, the total cost is projected by many to exceed a trillion dollars, and we've accomplished absolutely nothing, except for having awarded several very lucrative contracts to friends of the administration.
Would you really re-elect this guy?
