Quote: Joe Biden

Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) said this on national television on the Today Show:

“Twenty percent of our party really is anti-war almost under any circumstance, just like 20 percent of the Republican Party is probably ready to go to war on any circumstance."

It's probably not the most politically savvy thing to say--and right before Memorial Day to boot--but I'd guess he isn't too far away from the truth. I may even suggest the number is a little higher on both sides.

Happy Tax Day

Happy tax day! It is an as good a day as any other to reflect that we are one country, pooling our hard-earned money for the general and greater good.

What's that? Where do we spend our hard-earned tax dollars? Well, for lots of things of course! The biggest one just happens to be war. For fiscal year 2009, expenditures for past, present, and future war actions account for 54 cents on the dollar. Makes you feel good inside.



Courtesy of the War Resisters League. They explain their methodology here.