Do Americans Have Enough Money to do all They Say They Want to Do?

1. Win in Iraq
2. Win in Afghanistan 
3. Pay returning soldiers to go to college
4. Start an alternative energy industry
5. Win the war on Terror
6. Win the war on Drugs

``If the cleanup of a river that has been tainted for 60 years and counting takes a few years longer than first planned, nobody should be complaining. The river would have been cleaner years ago if G.E. hadn’t thrown its full power at delaying what it was finally ordered by a court to do. But if it takes a few more years and dollars to get to a cleaner river, so be it. ''

NYT

This is getting ridiculous,  all Americans need to do is find themselves a job.

From NYT's Frank Rich:

``We can’t afford to forget now that the single biggest legacy of the Iraq war at home was to codify the illusion that Americans can have it all at no cost''