1 in 8

Here we are contemplating an escalation of the war in Afghanistan - an escalation that will cost us billions today and trillions tomorrow - and we learn that one in eight of our neighbors is on food stamps. Nine million of us have joined the food stamp program in the past two years. The $1,000,000 a year it costs to deploy one soldier to Afghanistan would support 640 people for a year. Talk about misplaced priorities! How can our leaders be so cavalier?