Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/11/flushing-more-money-down-the-afghan-toilet/
May 11, 2010 - ...war escalation funding?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/10/gates-we-can-cut-military-spending/
May 10, 2010 - Well, he didn't exactly say that. But in his speech last Saturday at the Eisenhower Library, Obama Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged that the United States has such a huge lead in convent...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/09/the-folly-of-nation-building/
May 9, 2010 - ...war in Iraq and $299 billion to the war in Afghanistan. American military expenditures are as great as the military expenditures of the rest of the world combined.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/07/afghanistan-and-central-asian-oil/
May 7, 2010 - ...Afghanistan by the end of the year will be almost $200 billion. Thoughtful American taxpayers may ask why the Obama administration has not only embraced the Central Asian ground war that it inherited ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/06/rpt-factox-a-look-at-costs-of-afghan-war-to-us-tax/
May 6, 2010 - ...war in Afghanistan is still snarled in Congress as lawmakers work on other priorities and deal with scarce budget resources.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/04/mushrooms-keep-sprouting/
May 4, 2010 - Anthropologist Margaret Mead is credited with the statement, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Mead s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/03/the-politics-of-unemployment-as-it-turns-out/
May 3, 2010 - We all know someone who is out of work. If you don't, then drop by the local food banks or St. Olaf's on St. Vincent's utility bill aid days or the unemployment office.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/01/its-time-to-rethink-the-cost-of-wars/
May 1, 2010 - ...Afghanistan wars through the end of Fiscal Year 2010. In March, the administration appeared again on Capital Hill to ask for another $33 billion to support the "surge" in Afghanistan.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/30/high-speed-rail-a-national-security-priority/
April 30, 2010 - By Paul Scaglia
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/29/bloomfield-public-square-dialogue-for-the-21st-cen/
April 29, 2010 - Matt Ryan, the mayor of Binghamton, New York, is so fed up with all the painful budget cuts he has to implement that he has embarked on a very unusual project that he introduced at a press conference ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/guns-vs-butter-2010/
April 22, 2010 - See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/18/a-demand-grows-in-brooklyn-fund-kids-not-bombs/
April 18, 2010 - ...war spending
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/17/local-budgets-and-war-spending-a-reflection-for-ta/
April 17, 2010 - From every corner of America urban, suburban and rural the news of shrinking budgets and slashed community services sounds forth like a tragic Greek chorus.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/16/moyers-on-the-cost-of-war/
April 16, 2010 - ...war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "cost of war" clock that keeps a running tab of how much in tax dollars Binghamton citizens collectively and individually have contributed t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/senator-d-ny-charles-e-schumer-on-the-afghanistan-/
April 15, 2010 - ...war in Afghanistan. Unlike some Senators, Chuck Schumer actually wrote me back a reasonably detailed response (see below). Unfortunately, his views, which I believe reflect the mainstream views of bot...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/on-tax-day-a-reminder-that-war-is-not-free/
April 15, 2010 - ...war in Afghanistan is affecting the economy and job recovery in the United States today. "The resident of Tucson," Grijalva says, "have paid $298 million of their tax dollars to the war in Afghanistan...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/binghamton-ny-marks-tax-day-with-city-hall-counter/
April 15, 2010 - ...war anymore—you know, I grew during the Vietnam War, when it was called the "living room war"—because they don't cover a lot of what the human costs of war and the pictures that we used to see during ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/where-your-tax-dollars-went/
April 15, 2010 - Where your tax dollars went
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/14/first-of-its-kind-cost-of-war-counter-already-cont/
April 14, 2010 - ...war? How do we measure that?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/13/price-of-war-too-high/
April 13, 2010 - ...war, the cost increasingly is being questioned. People who years ago might have feared being called unpatriotic are lambasting the trillion dollars spent since 9/11.
