Thursday, May 1, 2008

Senate Moves To Restrict Iraq Reconstruction Funding

This article from CNN was very interesting to read and get information about, the article is talking about Iraq Reconstruction Funding. The Senate Armed Services Committee moved to Wednesday to ban in the U.S military funding of Iraqi reconstruction projects and the costing is more than $2 million. Then "American taxpayers are paying for too many things in Iraq that the Iraqis ought to pay for out of their surplus," said Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan. Then he was stating a lot of facts about the Restrict of Iraq Reconstruction Funding and he was making sure that many people was getting so heads up about the Iraq Reconstruction Funding. He state that "unconscionable" and "inexcusable" that the United States pay for for large scale infrastructure projects in Iraq when he said that the country is exporting 2 million barrels of oil per day and running a budget surplus and this country and others around the world. Then the committee is also pressing the Baghdad to the shoulder for more of the cost of joint US Iraqi military operations. As well the common sense for a country that has the kind of wealth and to be sending us the tab of for us to pay the tab for the infrastructure and some of the training costs that we're now paying. Then Levin was announcing that his committee's proposed the National Defense Authorization in the Bill of 2009 and which the outlines military spending. Then the Bill was unanimously approved by the Democrats and Republicans on the panel and now it move to the full Senate for a vote. Indeed the armed forces personnel went to 3.9 percent across the board. Then the Authorize was 7,000 more soldiers in the army and 5,000 more marines and 3,300 more full time for personnel for the National Guard and Army  Reserve. Then the contractors do not set up a foreign subsidiaries to avoid paying the US payroll taxes for their workers. 

1 comment:

Hugo Toledo said...

kevin i really like your topic there is a lot of money being pay for the war and now they want reconstruction projects and is costing more than $2 million.