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SomethingFishy

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3. Call me crazy but somehow I think that if we spent that money

Reply to Scuba (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 9, 2013, 03:14 PM

Aug 2013

feeding people instead of spying on them and sending in the drones we might have LESS terrorism.

I know it's nuts to think that if we took the money we spent on WAR and spent it helping build schools, roads, hospitals, helping farmers feed people, then maybe no one would want to attack us...

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This all they got? [View all] bigtree Aug 2013 OP

For what we spend on tracking this shit we could have bailed out Somalia - and Detroit! Scuba Aug 2013 #1

Call me crazy but somehow I think that if we spent that money SomethingFishy Aug 2013 #3

Hippie Commie. Scuba Aug 2013 #4

HEY! I said "Crazy" not "Commie"! n/t SomethingFishy Aug 2013 #5

LOL, one shares more information than that on their tax forms. eom millennialmax Aug 2013 #2

The DHS, DEA FBI and CIA have a lot of jobs Rex Aug 2013 #6

+1 n/t Catherina Aug 2013 #9

But if they start tracking wire transfers to other countries, Buns_of_Fire Aug 2013 #7

. bigtree Aug 2013 #8

Highway robbery. Rec'd n/t Catherina Aug 2013 #10

It becomes ever more obvious that there is something else behind all this Fumesucker Aug 2013 #11

That does seem a bit odd..if that's "all they got." Sheesh. K&R KoKo Aug 2013 #12

LOL, gullible much? n-t Logical Aug 2013 #13