Senate Passes War Funding Bill

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At this time, what we need,more than anything, is to fall back and regroup. Our governent is broken along with our country. We do not need to spend money on anything other than fixing ourselves. The border is all important. The oil spill is the worst disaster ever,and it has to be stopped before the ecology of the planet begins to turn upside down, underneith our feet. We have to fix our economy, we have to go back to our roots which made our nation bloom into the woderful country it used to be.

Bill T. of CA 9:35AM June 02, 2010

I lose track. A few million here, a billion there, another 10 million elsewhere. This must be the projection of American power at work, the on-going undertaking of hard-working taxpayers, through their elected officials, year after year. One would think we're a nation in the black, all that easy spending.
Is it time yet to reassess a foreign policy that costs us billions and billions a year with only the outcome that we remain the number one target of terrorists wherever and whoever they be? Just think about it--an ongoing war in a small, distant country, an occupation in another about to reach conclusion, and worries about what's going on in three or four more. Coughing up dollars at every opportunity for what? The illusion of necessity. Our national security.
It wasn't like this before WWII and only became the national obsessive-compulsive activity when we inherited the mantle of international leadership by default--last country standing, last country able to afford extravagance after wartime budgetary constraints.
Some among us came to love the power, and members of the military-industrial complex have been benefiting ever since. Now, all among us pay, the $59 million installment lately passed just further evidence in the year-by-year processional called "Your tax dollars at work assuring the Projection of American power."

Ron W. Smith of UT 8:09PM June 01, 2010