Operation Zero Cred: For the Record

Posted on 02/07/2009 at 8:38 am by Bob Cesca

U.S. Taxpayer Money Spent in Iraq:

• $800 billion (That’s $12 billion per month in 2008)

Missing, Lost or Mismanaged Money in Iraq:

• $9 billion disappeared
• $549.7 milion in spare parts
• 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles
• $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services
• $1.4 billion in Halliburton overcharges
• $3.2 billion in questionable charges by KBR

And over 35,000 American military casualties. (Source)

Yet the Republicans think the recovery bill is wasteful, irresponsible spending even though, according to the CBO, the bill would grow the economy and create 2.5 million new jobs this year alone. We’re talking about upwards of 4.1 percent increase in the GDP in 2009. That’s a lot. Instead, the very serious U.S. Senate has managed to slash the equivalent total of between 1 and 2.5 million new jobs from the bill.

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  • 24hourjack

    i blame this on nancy pelosi.the bill should have included more obvious infrastructure type items.more obviously job-looking job type stuff.in other words,less easy targets for the rightwing fringe to mock and hoot and holler about.i hate to say it but i honestly feel as though she has become a liability to the dem. party.and im disappointed in pres. obama for not clearly and strongly taking control from the beginning.now we’re getting a bill which is some sort of middle of the road compromise nonsense made up of half tax cuts and not enough jobs.yeah,republicans will obstruct and annoy the pres. over the next 4 years,but they can easily be dealt with.the speaker actually has power.

  • http://www.bobcesca.com Bob Cesca

    Jack – Even if the bill had been 100 percent clean and perfect, the Republicans would’ve made stuff up. The ACORN thing? Totally fake!

  • ceu

    >>now we’re getting a bill which is some sort of middle of the road compromise nonsense made up of half tax cuts and not enough jobs.that’s the Senate’s version. We don’t know what the final bill will include until it comes out of the conference committee. That’s why it’s important to keep the pressure on your congresscritters.

  • m4rk0

    Indeed Bob. After cutting most of the stuff they didn’t like and yet only 3 Repubes are for it. If it were 100% tax cuts we’d probably only see 5 or 6 Repubes for it.

  • veralynn

    they have principles, rememberI sent an email to Senator Burr asking him to sit down at the table and be a statesman, not a politician. To put the country before his party. The next day, he is on tv saying “this isn’t a stimulus package, it is a spending bill”.unfucking believable

  • CS

    You need to quit making stuff up. Noone knows how many jobs will be lost or created. It’s all guesswork.

  • SillyGit

    CS -Bob is getting his figures from Krugman. Since Krugman has a doctorate and Nobel Prize in Economics pardon us for using his numbers.Since I have no idea if you ever even took an econ course let alone passed one, pardon me for considering your opinion to be worth identically zero.Perhaps you were not aware that people that do the ame things over and over again while expecting different results are insane. The insane hang out at the Free Republic. They believe your goofy Voodoo economics over there.