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Would You Like Your Receipt in the Bag?


November 14, 2007 | Tags: War, terrorism, Bush

It’s no new information that I’m a broke as shit college student, so undoubtedly my perceptions about monetary amounts are a little bit skewed - $5 to me is like $50 most of the time. But I don’t particularly give a 2 girls 1 cup* shit about how rich any of you e-thugs are (unless you want to donate to my college fund); $1.6 trillion is a lot of fucking money, and you can’t deny that just like Lil Wayne can’t deny that he has a thing for dropping the soap (yes homo).

Gotta love the Democrats sometimes though. Yeah, they’re still some good for nothing, conspiracy theorist food for thought just like their Republican counterparts, but at least the Democrats don’t hesitate to call out the shenanigans of their black-golddigging political opposites. Well, assuming that the Democrats aren’t lying, that is. Which wouldn’t be too unrealistic considering they are politicians and well…aw, fuck it, just listen to a Dead Prez album on your own time. I got other shit to talk about.

The Democraps have gotten their hands on a report that compiles statistics and data taken from the Congressional Budget Office, which claims to be a nonpartisan organization (word?), that states that from 2002 to 2008, the war on terror (our wars vs. Afghanistan and Iraq, aka “Operation Fuel Hatred Towards South Asians That People Mistakenly Assume Are Middle Eastern Jihadists Because They’re Dark Skinned, Hairy, Stink of Body Odor and Cheap Cologne, and Speak With An Accent”**) will have cost our country approximately $1.6 trillion. “So what?” you say? “That’s our national debt, shit, I don’t have to pay that off myself, I’m still making that cake - I don’t give a fuck about the war!” Word to Monty Python: my friend, I fart in your general (ignorant) direction.

It has been calculated that given the $1.6 trillion figure, the average (four person) American family has paid upwards of $20,900 towards funding the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Maybe it’s just my broke ass, but almost twenty one thousand dollars is a whole fucking lot to me. Let’s put it in perspective…

1 pair of NIKEiD.com customized dunk lows = $110.

$20,900 divided by $110 = 190 pairs of dunks.



Ayo! Not only does that say that Nike charges a whole hell of a lot for its sweatshop produced goods (we can discuss that another day), but that says that we, the American people, are getting internally kidney poked (pause) by our government. Now, mind you, not all of this amount is made up of direct war costs. Parts of it are speculated side effects of the war - such as interest rates on the money we’ve borrowed for funding the war, thus smoking our national debt out with that sticky Ben Franklin green to the point that it’s at its $9 trillion historical highest ever. Somebody grab our debt a bag of Doritos, stat! We got some serious munchies on our hands. Alongside of that, potential health care costs for injured soldiers and the costs of the shit-tastic oil market are taken into account in this $1.6 trillion figure.

Most of you reading this lost 190 pairs of dunks, or quite possibly a full year of your work earnings, to not finding Bin Laden or weapons of mass destruction. To losing many of our civilians’ innocent lives in the battle. To getting Al-Qaeda more pissed at us than ever. To funding wars that you may not have supported in the first place.

Thank Allah (no Abdul Raheem) that it’s almost the end of Bush’s term.




*You can find that one on your own. I will not be held responsible for you puking your lunch all over your keyboard. You have been warned.

** My sincere apologies go out to all of the Indians/Bangladeshis that have caught some post September 11th racist slack from ignorant YT’s that don’t know a Syrian from a Sri Lankan. All my 7-11 workers, taxi drivers, and restaurant owners – I still love you. I know you’re not terrorists.


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