We spent hundreds of millions on compensating Iraqi families for having spent hundreds of billions shooting up their country and wiping out a lot of their relatives. All in a good cause, of course. But it seems to me probable that with what they contribute in the taxes they pay and the low cost labor they provide, we may not be facing as large a problem as we are making out to have. I'd like to know what the hard numbers are, but its an invisible economy, I suppose.


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