Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes

Originally submitted by volunteer editor Brandon W. Found on warresisters.org.
Originally submitted by volunteer editor Brandon W. Found on warresisters.org.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) stole the show at Wednesday night’s Congressional Correspondents Dinner. The routine included a jab at Sen. Rand Paul’s Aqua Buddhism and a few self-deprecating jokes about the sexy 1970s Jew-fro in his @repweiner Twitter profile picture, among other things.
Yep, you read right. Since 2001, the U.S. has spent upwards of $1260 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Has Newt Gingrich gone off the deep end?
It’s been eight years and five assassination attempts since women’s rights activist and former Afghan Parliament member Malalai Joya’s courageous speech against the Taliban’s unfair treatment of women and the corruption of warlords and the Karzai government.