War Dollars

The constitution says that the president is the commander in cheif of the armed forces but he shouldn't be able to spend money for war in any way he wants. Congress has the right to aprrove or deny the way the president wants to spend the money. The people vote for who they want to represent them and then those people end up in congress. Congress having a say in what happens to the money means that the people will generally be kept happy because they elected who is in congress. The people should have control over how money is spent because it is their money in taxes that are paying for it. If the american people don't like the war in iraq then they should be able to stop funding it and then possibly get a taxcut.


The president shouldn't have to worry about what congress says when it comes to war dollars. The american people elected the president in the first place so they should give him a chance to spend their money in the right way. The president is better prepared to make war decisions than congress anyways which is why the president is our commander in chief.


I think that congress should still have a say in how the president spends money when it comes to war. We elected the president but the war is being supported by our tax dollars so we should be able to monitor his spending through congress. When the president was elected war might not have even been an issue at the time so we should still be able to control how he spends money in war just in case we don't like how he handles it. War costs a lot which is why the people should know where it's going. The National Priorites Project shows that the war in iraq and afghanistan has cost each tax payer almost $8000 since 2001. In just iraq, the war has cost the u.s. $750,658,711,552 and it's still going up. This shows that the people are paying for the war so the people that they elect in congress should be able to control how it's spent.


http://www.costofwar.com/

http://www.peaceactioncleveland.org/files/imagemanagermodule/

http://erin-oneil.blogspot.com/

http://connorsundberg.blogspot.com/

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