And Another $50 Billion of Taxpayers Money!

The remarks by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's edged the administration toward critics' estimates that combat will cost closer to $75 billion in the budget year that starts Oct. 1.

Wolfowitz also seemed to open the door to compromise over the White House's unusual request for full control over the first $25 billion for the wars.**

With monthly war expenditures approaching $5 billion, next year's total cost "is $50 billion to $60 billion," Wolfowitz told senators. "If you look at our operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's a big bill."

The war spending is on top of the $402 billion Bush has proposed for the Defense Department for 2005.

That excludes construction of an embassy, which under some scenarios would cost an additional $1 billion.
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so DOD+war works out to..... somewhere around $3000 out of the pocket of every taxpayer in the US? thank goodness for that $300 tax rebate, and besides, how can you put a price on iraqi "liberty"? lol.

can't wait to see the $1,000,000,000 embassy - must be a hell of a building :p
 
Let's now tell everyone that we were WAY OFF and the estimate is closer to $75 billion!

Can you imagine what this country could do for itself if it spent $5 billion per month inside it's own freaking borders?

Naaaaaaa.
That would make far too much sense!

:(
 
the face of stupidity

capt.wcap10105131529.defense_budget_wcap101

Lying piece of shit BURNING MY TAX DOLLARS ON THIS BULLSHIT CRUSADE.
 
"Years ago, in the days of the Greeks, wars were postponed to make room for the Olympic Games. In modern times, the Games have been postponed twice -- to make room for wars." ~Bob Mathias

(Won his first Olympic Gold in the decathlon at age 17 (youngest male athlete ever), was the first decathlete to win Gold in back to back Olympics, undefeated in his career, (fullback for Stanford in the Rosebowl, US Marine, US Congressman, and still the Stanford school record holder (by 300+ points) over 5 decades later)
 
Here's a good website to put things into perspective - http://costofwar.com/.

As of today, the total cost of the war has been approximately $114 billion dollars. This is about $380 for every man, woman and child in the US.

With the huge Republican deficits we are currently running, we really don't have any money for anything. With the really huge unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare - estimated in the book "The Coming Generational Storm" at $47 TRILLION dollars - we are already basically bankrupt.

If we did in fact have a $114 billion dollars to spend - even though we don't - we could have given full-ride, four-year scholarships to about 2,900,000 students in the US.
 
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