There Goes the Money for Cat 5 Protection and Coastal Restoration

Illustration by John Blackford. By Peter van Agtmael/Polaris (desert), Konstantin Inozemtsev/Alamy (money).

I can't take credit for the image, but it's as representative as anything of pure, undiluted, 200 proof wingnut stupid.

I guess anyone stopping by here knows the basics: $9 BILLION dollars that's simply gone missing in Mesopotamia out of a total of...$11,981,531,000 dollars shipped, or 281 million individual bills...or 363 tons..of cash. Click in the link for the details.

As y'all further know, that in itself is just a fraction of the total cost of war, now pushing $500 billion dollars...and what price do you put on the lost lives?

Where are the goddamned guardians of the treasury gates? Where are those who piously claim "fiscal responsibility" when sniffling and snorting about what's a pretty good investment in comparison, namely, protecting the the strategically and economically vital United States Gulf Coast...and, for that matter, also investing in engineering/infrastructure projects throughout the nation? I guess their fiscal responsibility, like their so-called Christian belief system, is selective...as opposed to, you know, Christian.

Speaks volumes...