The house that Dick built.

I assume most Americans value every dollar. Especially now when the division between rich and poor has become so wide. And, of course, nothing makes you so aware of your finances than holiday weekends, when you want to do more, spend more, enjoy more things that frankly cost money. So it's kind of annoying this year to realizes that the government stole slightly more than a dollar from every single American, every man, woman, child, even newborn. That's right, they ripped you off for $34 million. And what did they spend it on? New bridges? Better highways?  Free health facilities? Nope. Nothing of any use to you. In fact what they bought isn't even in America. What it is is a windowless two-story structure in Afghanistan. It's larger than a football field, and it will probably never be used.
Makes you wonder: What kind of idiots would spend that kind of money on something useless, and why? Easy. It was a project of Dick Cheney's Halliburton, a company that has already made almost $40 billion on the Iraq war. $40 billion! Think about that. That's 40 thousand million! A figure that's almost inconceivable. To make that kind of money you need a war, you know like the one Cheney fought so hard for. And a lot of people have to die. Men, women, children, lots of children. Now those who lost limbs or went blind don't get any share of that $40 billion. Whatever huge profits there are go directly into the pockets of Cheney and his friends, none of whom are maimed or blind because they never actually had to participate in the danger aspects of the war.So this holiday weekend when you're kind of surprised that an ice cream cone now costs $5.00 or more, think  about the empty building that cost $34 million, and the profiteers who turned a fake war into a $40 billion cash cow.