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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Have Cost $1.3 Trillion

This per Democrats on the Joint Congressional Economic Committee.  So you know it’s fair and objective and not at all slanted to conveniently fit their “let’s lose in Iraq at any cost” agenda.

But putting aside concerns over accuracy and methodology, $1.3 trillion over six years (from 2002 to 2008) is a drop in the bucket compared to the approximate $1.6 trillion we spend on mandatory social entitlements in this country every single year.

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Wake me up when a Democrat is concerned about the impact our terribly burdensome tax code (which funds said entitlements) has on our society as a whole.  Because this war spending will, eventually, go away.  But unless we make some drastic changes to the way government is involved in our day-to-day lives this entitlement spending is going to keep growing until it breaks us.

That’s the real crisis, not war spending.

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I say it’s time the US declared the war on poverty won and unilaterally disarm.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on November 13, 2007 at 12:54 pm

Here’s a non-biased report saying that the war will actually cost $1.6 trillion or $46,500 for each family of four.
$1.6 Trillion?

Here’s where this wave of entitlement spending goes. They are, after all, entitled.  Entitlement Spending

ews48 on November 13, 2007 at 02:48 pm

What’s the war on poverty cost us then EWS48?  A lot more than that.

All we’ve gotten is more dependent people, more poverty and more misery.  Shame on the left.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on November 13, 2007 at 02:53 pm
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Because this war spending will, eventually, go away.

Total cost of the Cold War (1948-1991) in 1996 dollars = $13.1 Trillion. We are on the rise with this type of spending as well; people are becoming dependant on war spending as they invest their money in defense in the stock market.

Your own chart does not show the U.S spending 1.6 trillion every single year by the way.  But it will continue to rise along with military/war spending.  If we go to war with Iran these numbers will most likely double or triple in the next few years.

Do you think all those military bases we are building in Iraq are just going to go away?  Did the bases in Germany and Korea and other countries just go away?  The contracts for defense spending are not going to go away.

The problem is spending, no matter how you spin it.  We cannot afford the war and we cannot afford the social spending individually or combined.

How many people in North Dakota can justify a 9 trillion dollar debt that the government has given us, soon to be a 10 trillion debt?

reality check on November 14, 2007 at 08:14 am

Total cost of the Cold War (1948-1991) in 1996 dollars = $13.1 Trillion.

Total cost of not winning the cold war and becoming communist slaves would have been a berjillion times worse than that.  Even the people that were victims of communist oppression have been freed because of our efforts.

The Islamic Fascists hope to take over the world.  What is the cost of submission?


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on November 14, 2007 at 08:22 am
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Yes, to kill and war everyone is the answer, forgive me.

Bow down now to your new Chinese masters.

reality check on November 14, 2007 at 08:48 am

The teachers said it takes two to make a fight.  Anyone who’s been mugged realizes that they were lying.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on November 14, 2007 at 08:55 am
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The teachers said it takes two to make a fight.

You mean start a fight?

Some people get mugged over and over, most who have been mugged does not carry a weapon around to protect themselves.  They are to afraid to in this world nowadays or cannot.  Someone I know got mugged 6 times when he moved from North Dakota to New York. Some people make themselves an easy target.  This is not a good comparison as we did start the war in Iraq.  Or am I missing something? Did Iraq invade us?  Have islamics been killing us from Iraq?

reality check on November 14, 2007 at 09:12 am

Saddam started the 1991 and never complied with the cease fire agreement.  He also was a state sponsor of terrorism and working to destabilize the entire area.

Hitler never attacked us either but we had to get rid of him.  For the most part neither did the Soviets.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on November 14, 2007 at 09:28 am
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THE IRAQ WAR INVESTMENT QUESTIONS

How could America’s wealth and lives have been less wastefully and cruelly invested?

What did America’s Founding Fathers state in regard to foreign entanglements; and what does the American Constitution state?

How much did the notorious Israeli lobby donate to start the Iraq War? Hint: How much did the San Diego arsons spend to start the San Diego fire?

Jeugen on November 14, 2007 at 09:29 am

If we’re going to put all this into proper perspective, the entire cost of the war, whether it is $1.3 trillion or $1.6 trillion, is still less than the $1.8 trillion in surplus collections that has been appropriated from the so-called federal “trust funds”, including Social Security, and spent by by our political leaders in just the 15 year period from FY 1991 through FY 2006.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on November 14, 2007 at 09:55 am
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So, you are a believer that the United States didn’t put Saddam into power starting it at that point, so be it. You probably believe we did not give Saddam chemical weapons to use on poeple either. The area was unstable way before 1991.  The one thing people do not like to hear is that Israel has not complied with more UN resolutions than Saddam, now as Saddam is dead that will always be true, kind of sad.

We may have gotten rid of Hitler but the Nazi party is alive still in Germany to this day.  I have a German friend I talk to each day on the net that works in a nursing home.  He tells me of all the actions of the party as the elderly still keep track of it.  I am sure we still have remnants of our own huge Nazi party here in the U.S. left over too, most people do not even know how big the party was before going after Hitler.  Hitler too was loved and supported by the United States before he went out of control. These things may still come back to bite us yet.

reality check on November 14, 2007 at 09:56 am

I’m glad that we just exposed you to be the nutcase that you are.

We didn’t put Saddam in power.  (We did do a small bit to keep Iraq from losing to Iran but that had no further consequences.)

Furthermore Hitler was not loved in the US except by Time magazine and a few other nuts.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on November 14, 2007 at 10:09 am
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I see when you loose you resort to name calling, it is ok, I expect that.  but please change your avatar it does not suit you.  I could give you endless videos/documents on the Nazi party in the United States and the U.S. giving Saddam chemical weapons, but I am not going to hold your hand on that.  You can look them up as well as I, I have already done the research.

reality check on November 14, 2007 at 10:27 am
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cya next time you are in need of a reality check.

reality check on November 14, 2007 at 10:32 am

To say that a few nutcases attended German American Bund rally indicates that Hitler was loved by the US is a gigantic stretch.

And your “The US gave Saddam chemical weapons” meme is just plain stupid.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on November 14, 2007 at 10:38 am
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