Re:Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (2005)
by losteric on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @11:46AM
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We let fear destroy us. Since 2001, we have spent $4.79 trillion on war in the Middle East... averaging out to $319,000,000,000 ($319B) per year.
For perspective, Clinton's campaign national infrastructure bill proposed spending $240B over 10 years, and a national high-speed rail network might cost around $500B. Those are huge expenditures, but they are investments in the American public.
War in the Middle East? Our money just goes up in smoke...
For perspective, Clinton's campaign national infrastructure bill proposed spending $240B over 10 years, and a national high-speed rail network might cost around $500B. Those are huge expenditures, but they are investments in the American public.
War in the Middle East? Our money just goes up in smoke...
[1] Summary of Costs of the US Wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan and Homeland Security: http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/201...