Worth a Read

by   |  March 11, 2008

This from the Washington Post: "There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can't spend $3 trillion -- yes, $3 trillion -- on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home." And as public service workers, we see all too well the pain here at home. Crumbling infrastructure, funding cuts to the critical social services, schools lacking in basic supplies. "More from Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz and their Post Op-Ed: "As we head toward November, opinion polls say that voters' main worry is now the economy, not the war. But there's no way to disentangle the two. The United States will be paying the price of Iraq for decades to come…and the cost will grow the longer we remain." Indeed.