“The next time you hear we must force America’s retired, aged, poor, sick and vulnerable into abject poverty in order to reduce the deficit, think of this. $100 billion of a debt ceiling increase would fund the government until September. Yet the cost of war since 2001 is hitting $4 trillion dollars. If only the United States poured those funds into rebuilding America’s infrastructure. Seems policy generally is anybody but American workers and citizens.” — While Social Security is Under Attack, Billions are Lost in Afghanistan (via azspot)