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HOW MUCH IS THE WAR IN IRAQ COSTING U.S. ? |
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Thus Spake: *G* *O* *D* *S* *C* *R* *E* *A* *T* *O* *R*
If you add these costs, and others, to the total tab, the cost
of the war
has jumped from $4.4 billion to $7.1 billion a month since the 2003
fiscal year, according to a paper co-authored in January by Columbia
University professor and Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph
Stiglitz,
an outspoken critic of the war. :-\
---> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15377059/
The paper estimates the total cost could top $1 trillion.
THE NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
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http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
*How much tax break money do YOU receive* ?
God's Creator!
(I don't forgive *****!) 8-)
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<blockquote><b> If you add these costs, and others, to the total
tab, the cost of the war </b><br>
<b> has jumped from <font color="#cc0000"><big>$4.4 billion </big></font></b><b>to
<big><big><font color="#cc0000">$7.1 billion</font> </big></big></b><b>a
month since the 2003<br>
fiscal year, </b><b>according to a paper co-authored in January by
Columbia<br>
University professor </b><b>and <big>Nobel-prize winning economist
Joseph Stiglitz</big></b><b>,<br>
an outspoken critic of the war. <span class="moz-smiley-s7"><span>
:-\ </span></span><br>
</b></blockquote>
<b> </b><font color="#3333ff"><big><big> <b>--->
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15377059/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15377059/</a></b></big></big></font><b><br>
<font color="#000000"><big> The paper estimates the total
cost could top</big></font></b><font color="#006600"><big><b> <big>$1
trillion.</big><br>
</b></big></font><br>
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<div align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><big><b>THE <font
color="#ff0000">NATIONAL</font> DEBT <font color="#ff0000">CLOCK</font></b></big></font><br>
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<font color="#cc0000"><big><big><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/">http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/</a><br>
</b></big></big></font><br>
<big><big><b><i>*How much tax break money do YOU receive* ?</i><br>
</b></big></big><br>
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<div align="center"><font color="#009900"><big><big><b>God's Creator! </b></big></big></font><br>
(<font color="#ff0000"><i><big><b>I don't forgive *****!</b></big></i></font>)
<span class="moz-smiley-s11"><span> 8-) </span></span><br>
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<font color="#3333ff"><big><big><b>Todays <font color="#ff0000">U.S. Holy Wars </font>News:</b></big></big></font>
<font color="#330033"><i><big><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.antiwar.com">http://www.antiwar.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://icasualties.org/oif/">http://icasualties.org/oif/</a>
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| Title: Re: HOW MUCH IS THE WAR IN IRAQ COSTING U.S. ? |
27 Oct 2006 09:57:44 PM |
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In article <_NWdnTfvQJN9XN_YnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d@comcast.com>,
God's Creator! (TEXT & HTML) <Dont_Even_Think@About.it> wrote:
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Thus Spake: *G* *O* *D* *S* *C* *R* *E* *A* *T* *O* *R*
If you add these costs, and others, to the total tab, the cost
of the war
has jumped from $4.4 billion to $7.1 billion a month since the 2003
fiscal year, according to a paper co-authored in January by Columbia
University professor and Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph
Stiglitz,
an outspoken critic of the war. :-\
---> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15377059/
The paper estimates the total cost could top $1 trillion.
THE NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
-----------------------------------------
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
*How much tax break money do YOU receive* ?
Full text of what is now a year-old OP-ED.
http://nytimes.com/2005/08/20/opinion/20bilmes.html?adxnnl=1&adxnn
lx=1124547006-ubMRFbT1Wy7GB01mK3dmqg
The New York Times
August 20, 2005
The Trillion-Dollar War
By LINDA BILMES
Cambridge, Mass.
THE human cost of the more than 2,000 American military
personnel killed and 14,500 wounded so far in Iraq and
Afghanistan is all too apparent. But the financial toll is still
largely hidden from public view and, like the suffering of those
who have lost loved ones, will persist long after the fighting
is over.
The cost goes well beyond the more than $250 billion already
spent on military operations and reconstruction. Basic running
costs of the current conflicts are $6 billion a month - a figure
that reflects the Pentagon's unprecedented reliance on expensive
private contractors. Other factors keeping costs high include
inducements for recruits and for military personnel serving
second and third deployments, extra pay for reservists and
members of the National Guard, as well as more than $2 billion a
year in additional foreign aid to Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and
others to reward their cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan. The
bill for repairing and replacing military hardware is $20
billion a year, according to figures from the Congressional
Budget Office.
But the biggest long-term costs are disability and health
payments for returning troops, which will be incurred even if
hostilities were to stop tomorrow. The United States currently
pays more than $2 billion in disability claims per year for
159,000 veterans of the 1991 gulf war, even though that conflict
lasted only five weeks, with 148 dead and 467 wounded. Even
assuming that the 525,000 American troops who have so far served
in Iraq and Afghanistan will require treatment only on the same
scale as their predecessors from the gulf war, these payments
are likely to run at $7 billion a year for the next 45 years.
All of this spending will need to be financed by adding to the
federal debt. Extra interest payments will total $200 billion or
more even if the borrowing is repaid quickly. Conflict in the
Middle East has also played a part in doubling the price of oil
from $30 a barrel just prior to the invasion of Iraq in March
2003 to $60 a barrel today. Each $5 increase in the price of oil
reduces our national income by about $17 billion a year.
Even by this simple yardstick, if the American military presence
in the region lasts another five years, the total outlay for the
war could stretch to more than $1.3 trillion, or $11,300 for
every household in the United States.
Linda Bilmes, an assistant secretary at the Department of
Commerce from 1999 to 2001, teaches budgeting and public finance
at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
* Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
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