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Why is okay spending tax payer money to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq, but not to rebuild America?

After all, it cost over 1 trillion dollars to invade Iraq and Afghanistan and help rebuild them from the rubble, yet after we had the biggest economic collapse here in America, Republicans were against a 800 billion dollar stimulus to put Americans back to work? A little hypocritical now, isn't it? We have money for foreign countries, but we don't have enough money for our own country??

CBO estimates stimulus increased employment by up to 3.3 million jobs. http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/117xx/doc11706/08-24-ARRA.p...

Wall Street Journal: 70 percent of economists surveyed said stimulus helped. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487036...

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  • Chin T
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Because that is what the banks like the Federal Reserve and the IMF want, so they lend us money and charge us interest to fund what they want while they tighten our credit lines to make us go broke, so we want to fight more battles for them.

    Btw, some article from more than 6 months ago is not worthy of reading, the stimulus DID NOT WORK

  • 1 decade ago

    There is a little known clause in the Geneva Conventions Treaty where it says that you can declare war and wage war, but you have to rebuild the country. So regardless of how you feel about it, we have no choice.The $800 billion dollar stimulus would have done absolutely nothing. Just like everything else Obama has done. The economy is not moving because it is more expensive to have a business and employees than to not have one.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Politics

  • 1 decade ago

    No it is not, just like helping those terrorist countries to rebuild from natural disasters is wrong. What about America? Americans are suffering everyday. We should look after ourselves before others. Because others don't give a damn about us.

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  • BruceN
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    For the same reason we still have hundreds of thousands of troops protecting Europe, Japan and Korea and give military aid to Israel which all have more robust social safety nets than we do. Eisenhower called it the military-industrial-complex.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I agree that would beat the stimulus out of the gate simply spending our money on us

  • cantcu
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Invading is not the same as "rebuilding"!

  • Tania
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I'm all for helping our country before others. not that aid to other countries should be stopped, but that we need to be ok before we worry about them.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hey you're gonna hurt their brains.

    They think that all the money only went towards bombing the sh*t out of those a-rabs.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Are you saying you are pro- blow it up, but anti- fix it? Ya, that'll make less terrorists for sure....

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