National Priorities Database Useful for Economic Understanding

The Nation has challenging political and economic times because of bad leadership. Perhaps Christians and Muslims in the U.S. military service will need to be given religious exemptions from service if they are compelled to be yoked with sinners as official government policy to welcome with open arms homosexual military personnel. The timing on the gay option for the U.S Military is maladroit in the midst of an economic downturn. Defense Secretary Gates remaining in the spend 14 billion dollars a day post is unfortunate too. He issued a questionaire via email concerning the question of gaying up the historically hetero-normal military...

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/07/military_dontask_survey_070710w/

If the nation can escape Federal sin of an economic kind, perhaps we can remove from the two illogical foreign boondoggles directly and consider something else to do. The Iraqis cannot even decide between Alawi and Maliki because they know how to keep a turkey in suspense. Maybe we have done enough for the Iraqis as it is, and should let Exxon-Mobil pay to defend its own oil fields in the future.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/

In reading the book 'The Three Trillion Dollar War' co-authored by a Nobel prize winner in economics, I encountered the mention of the National Priorities project. If one wonders how the U.S. economy is going wrong for some of us, the database helps.

Remember back 'in the day' when a Bush neo-con supporter of the war in Iraq estimated the U.S. taxpayer cost for reconstruction at 1.7 billion? Now the cost is expected to be more than 3 trillion dollars and for what? Why are we still there any way?

The federal congress simply rolled over on budgeting the war---Democrats wouldn't vote against anything. Defense Secretary Gates has been a Bush protege continuity spender since 2007 and should be fired by the Harvard Alumni stuffed suit administration. Emergency budget bills and a zillion private contractors made this war for non-existing weapons of mass destruction (the publics reasoning if not my own) costlier than Vietnam and nearly as expensive as the second world war.

The administration knew how to get Sect Gates and Admiral Mullins the opportunity to ask the military (they just sent an email inquiry to 400,000 military personnel) if they would object to having gay pride parades and homosexuals sucking up to officers openly in their units--just attach the measure to a Defense spending bill. Evidently the Iraq and Afghanistan spending bills are excellent tools for port allocations to congressional districts.

The private military contractors acting as a private army were paid as much as 400,000 dollars per year. Congress was rolling over and having its belly scratched of course with patriotic speeches. Several years more of idiotic neo-war ahead perhaps.

The National Priorities Project does have some useful information.