From WSJ:
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate Thursday approved a key procedural hurdle on a roughly $60 billion bill to pay for the war in Afghanistan through the remaining four months of fiscal 2010, setting up a possible final vote later in the day.The measure also contains money for Haiti and FEMA. The House bill is $84 billion for the next four months. The bulk of both bills, however, is money to pay for Obama's surging war in Afghanistan.
I read somewhere that the state is only good at two things. Taxing and war. In other words, spending other people's money and murdering. We've done a tremendously good job with those two things these last 9 years.
