On: Why Can’t Americans Get a Raise?

[coldpie]

> Biggest waste of public funds in a generation

A certain little jaunt through the middle east would like to have a word with you.

[mason240 → coldpie]

Nearly all of that spending was simply added directly the national debt, very little actually came out of the general fund.

[Noumenon72 → mason240]

I'm sorry I'm taking your bait, but obviously it is the same waste of money whether you pay for it with cash or on your credit card.

[sqeaky → mason240]

Surely there are some negative side effects of more a trillion dollars of debt!

[JoeAltmaier → coldpie]

Ha! But did that accelerate our maintenance backlog? Never mind the money; its about the physical infrastructure we've got to keep up.