Why Do The Interests In Iraq, Afghanistan & Pakistan Override What Belongs To America?

Courtesy of Infoplease

From Prison Planet:

The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed Thursday. On top of the basic defense budget of 533.7 billion dollars, the White House is requesting a further 130 billion dollars for overseas missions, including 65 billion for Afghanistan and 61 billion for Iraq.

As for military contractors:

The military is increasingly relying on private security contractors as President Obama ramps up the war in Afghanistan, with contractors now making up as much as 30% of the armed force in the country, a just-released congressional report shows.

In the period roughly tracking with President Obama's first nine months in office, the number of Defense Department armed security contractors soared 236% -- from 3,184 to 10,712 between December 2008 to September 2009. The number roughly doubled between June and September 2009 alone.

I could go on and on with articles, but I think my point is made. Our military budget and our wars have taken money from the American public and wasted it on frivolousness. Never mind the false "terrorism" meme the right and some on the left tout to support such expenses, the fact of the matter is that whatever we do or pretend to have accomplished "over there" has not had any impact on people over "here" feeling any better about the people over "there." The right wing nut jobs have labeled all Muslims as terrorists, so what is the point? Are we suddenly going to convert them all to White, and Christians, to boot? Hell, no!

The irony of spending money on infrastructure in Iraq based on the American government's destruction of said infrastructure, at the expense of spending money on AMERICA'S INFRASTRUCTURE is not lost on me, nor is it lost on millions of Americans. The irony of our congressional leaders refusing to put money into AMERICANS hands by not passing bills that support and give money to American citizens (with the stupid proviso that said bills and money need to be accounted for and paid for before they can be passed) while at the same time, funding for Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is not paid for, and is balanced on the backs of the American people.

It's been seven years now. Seven fucking years of wasting money in the middle east, while we see our country going down the tubes financially at the same time our government (from the president on down) refuses to help our own country. States can't meet their budgets, we have unemployment in double digits, the banking industry is in ruins, Wall Street is sucking the life out of this country while only a handful reap any rewards, and our government sits on its hands and shakes its head, citing terrorism as a priority over American prosperity.

Hypocrisy, meet the American political system.