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How much do you think the war in Iraq was worth, in dollars? Was your figure more or less than $7.7 trillion? Because that's how much the war might end up costing, according to a new study from Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. So far, the government has spent $1.7 trillion on the war, but that's not counting $490 billion in veterans' benefits, which could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next 40 years once interest is added in, Reuters reports.
How much do you think the war in Iraq was worth, in dollars? Was your figure more or less than $7.7 trillion? Because that's how much the war might end up costing, according to a new study from Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. So far, the government has spent $1.7 trillion on the war, but that's not counting $490 billion in veterans' benefits, which could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next 40 years once interest is added in, Reuters reports.
But to Republicans this is not government spending. Does a Republican ever catch himself grumbling about his tax dollars going to a black hole in the middle east or to Dick Cheney's stock portfolio? NO
But they think their wallets are regularly drained directly by entitlements for poor minorities.
Like many other government expenditures the cost was the benefit. All those trillions wound up at some company's bottom line. The warmongers and profiteers consider all the human lives a small cost for their endless returns. After all they anf their kids never have to risk their lives.
But to Republicans this is not government spending. Does a Republican ever catch himself grumbling about his tax dollars going to a black hole in the middle east or to Dick Cheney's stock portfolio? NO
But they think their wallets are regularly drained directly by entitlements for poor minorities.
What money went into Dick Cheny's stock portfolio? Cheney was RETIRE long before the war ( supported by the entire Congress) started. The bill under the Bush Administration was less than $900 billion. That is the cost of freedom. The "War in Iraq" ended in 2003 with the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Under liberal math, the cost of WW2 and Korea are still mounting since we have troops and bases in both countries.
It is always easier to blame ones problems on the poor than ever look at the real issues.
...... the poor who waste their oppurtunity of living in America.
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