1,410,157,000,000 and counting............

[madrchsod]

cost of the oil wars since 2001...that`s how many years ago?

http://costofwar.com/

econ 101---1,410,000,000,000 trillion dollars invested into the public good would return at least 4 trillion into the economy. we would have "full employment" today.


check your state,city,county, or congressional district to see how much it has lost.

[HereSince1628]

1. How much does that number look like the deficit reduction target? n/t

[xocet]

2. Aside: "...1,410,000,000,000 trillion (sic) dollars...." should be 1.41 trillion USD.

The cost of the wars is not the vastly larger number which you have written.

[caseymoz]

3. Do you mean

$1,410,157,000,000 trillion?

Or $1.410157 trillion?

I'm suppose you mean the latter. The former is impossible in today's economy, but I have to check, because the way you have it stated would be a twelve digit decimal error. For people who have a hazier idea of the scale you're talking about, that could give them the wrong idea if you're overstating by twelve digits.

[pansypoo53219]

4. this was said many years ago in regards to napoleonic war by William Pitt,

PM of england. i have a set of greatest orations, published in 1907. YES, i am reading the books before ebay.

[grahamhgreen]

5. Geez, same as the deficit! Keep the military sequester.

[DreamGypsy]

6. These get published every week in our local free paper, The Eugene Weekly

Going on since the start of the wars: http://www.eugeneweekly.com/article/war-dead-1-3-2013

Maybe for the first Gulf War as well, don't remember.

In Afghanistan

• 2,164 U.S. troops killed* (2,162)
• 18,167 U.S. troops wounded in action (18,154)
• 1,263 U.S. contractors killed (1,263)
• 12,793 civilians killed (12,793)
• $597.8 billion cost of war ($595.6 billion)
• $176.5 million cost to Eugene taxpayers

In Iraq

The war officially ended December 2011 with a total of 4,422 U.S. troops killed, 31,930 wounded in action and undisclosed hundreds of U.S. military suicides. But U.S. contractors have assumed a larger role, high levels of U.S. spending continue, and the body count from civil unrest grows.

• 1,587 U.S. contractors killed (1,587)
• 121,121 to 1.2 million civilians killed* (121,112)
• $809.8 billion cost of war ($809.6 billion)
• $239.1 million cost to Eugene taxpayers

I wasn't in Oregon at the time of Vietnam, Korea, WW2, ...

[KG]

7. kinda makes the whole fiscal cliff thing laughable kabuki theater.

actually it's not that funny...

[xchrom]

8. +1

[roamer65]

9. Most of that is borrowed money...just wait until the bond vigilantes start demanding a better return