More of the Stop the Insanity Insanity

Senator Joe Biden (D - Delaware) addressed the International Association of Firefighters recently. The following quote was excerpted from his remarks.

Ladies and gentlemen, in order for us to regain the flexibility to be able to do the things we have to do to affect you and your union brothers and sisters in unions all across the country, and working men and women as well, in order to gain the credibility to deal with the problems we have at home, we have to do one important thing first: We've got to end this war.
This war is costing us $100 billion a year. It's sucking all the oxygen out of the air. It's taking every bit of our political, emotional and the bulk of our financial resources in order to deal with it.

Let's interject a little reality here. The U.S. government is currently spending about 2.7 trillion dollars per year. Why don't you pause for a second, take a deep breath, and let the enormity of that number wash over you. US$2,700,000,000,000.00. According to Senator Biden, the US$100 billion it is taking to fund the war is "sucking all the oxygen out of the room" and constitutes the "bulk of our financial resources." In percentage terms, that $100 billion is less than FOUR ONE-HUNDREDTHS PERCENT.

Come on Senator. You can do better than this.