Posted on 03/04/2017 12:04:20 PM PST by Lorianne
Republicans and Democrats both refuse to investigate the staggering resources wasted in the Middle East.
In President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress earlier this week, White House speechwriters inserted more than a few startling numbers: 4,000 Chicagoans shot in a single year; 60,000 American factories shuttered since 2001; 43 million Americans living in poverty, with an equal number receiving food stamps; 94 million workers having simply given up looking for work; an annual trade deficit just shy of $800 billion.
Yet the biggest number of all is the one all but guaranteed to attract the least attention in policymaking circles. It’s the number that few in Washington want to talk about or even acknowledge: $6,000,000,000,000
“America has spent approximately six trillion dollars in the Middle East,” Trump observed. As media personalities like to say, that’s trillion with a T. The sums expended pursuant to U.S. military misadventures in that part of the world are so gargantuan, Trump continued, that “we could have rebuilt our country—twice. And maybe even three times….”
A tad hyperbolic? Perhaps, but given that the words were spoken in a building that rings with mind-boggling hyperbole on a daily basis, the judgment comes close enough to the facts to pass muster as essentially accurate. At the very least, it contains a fair amount of what Stephen Colbert terms truthiness.
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That's what my doc said about my stool sample.
Six trillion? That’s an easy question. Obama was funding his pals, the Muslim terrorists. And Nancy Pelosi, Chucky Schumer, Juan McCain, and company all just loved it!
That’s one hell of a swamp for one man to drain.
F’em. Take them all down. Starting ... NOW.
Never again or we will collapse.
Money down the rat hole...
Such a stupid phrase. Also, it looks like Botox is wearing off.
THAT THING IS UGLY, ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
Unfortunately this is how Washington and the US government is run. As long as the politicians get all their perks nobody gives a damn.
Even the democraps are acknowledging that Trump is keeping his promises. Something totally unheard of in Washington. The democraps are such a disaster that they remind me of the Keystone Cops.
Oh and yeah Pelosi looks like she's overdue for some Botox. I saw her on tv at Trump's speech and it looked like she was talking to herself. Her eyes looked like they were set deep in her eye sockets and she was drooling. Reminded me of Skeletor. Extended abuse of Botox is very harmful and people end up with mush for a brain as we can see with Pelosi.
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