Letters to the Editor
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Honestly
we are never going to pay back our national debt because the government is just going to keep spending no matter what happens, so I don't actually think the cost is all that relavant.
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Well, of course
The bill for the war will be over a trillion dollars. Large corporations have to make an acceptable profit, after all.
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Innumeracy and the cost of war
Observers from C. Northcote Parkinson (of the famous "Parkinson's Law") to comedian Steve Allen, who tried unsucessfully to get the term "innumeracy" into common parlance, have commented on the inability of people to understand big numbers.
A billion is a big number. A trillion, a thousand times a billion, is beyond the capacity of most human brains to grasp.
Why doesn't anyone break down the cost of the war? If it costs $12 billion a week, and there are 300 million Americans, it is costing each, on average, $40 a week. This is for current costs only, not debt service or the cost of supporting the horribly maimed for life, the cost of supporting the widows and their minor children.
How many numb nuts conservatives, Bush supporters, watchers of Fox News, Wall Street Journal readers even, would support this deranged war if they got a bill for $40 a week for themselves and every single member of their families? How many realize that the cost is being put on the national credit card and their grandchildren will be expected to pay it off?
It's time for pundits and politicians to break down the costs to levels the public can actually understand.
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Cost of the war on terror
Very simple question:
Who the hell gets all this money? We are talking about almost a trillion!
Perhaps Mr. Conason could investigate!
Surely not the people of Iraq, not the ordinary people of US.
How many Halliburton shares the twins have? what did they gain?
While ordinary soldiers are killed or maimed, some people get awfully rich on the Iraq war! Who?