The unspent windfall, which covers surpluses from oil sales since 2005, appears likely to reinforce growing debate about the approximately $48 billion in American taxpayer money devoted to rebuilding Iraq since the American-led invasion."
Now...explain to me again why we can't have universal health care?Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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"Soaring oil prices will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year’s end, according to an American federal oversight agency. But Iraq has spent only a minute fraction of that on reconstruction costs, which are now largely borne by the United States.
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"Now...explain to me again why we can't have universal health care?"
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty obvious--if poor people are allowed to hog operating rooms for life-saving surgeries, a CEO's mistress might have to wait a few days for her boob job.
Oh, wait. That's right.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the perspective.
Fuck the Poor!
Not that I'm bitter about working three jobs and not having health insurance. Although my bile rises whenever I hear the rants against "socialized medicine" by compassionate conservatives.
ReplyDeleteNot at all.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice to get some of that "Freedom" style Health Care, though...