Portside -According to estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the war on terror has cost Americans a staggering $5.6 trillion since 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.
$5.6 trillion. This figure includes not just the Pentagon’s war fund,
but also future obligations such as social services for an ever-growing
number of post-9/11 veterans.
It means Americans spend $32 million per hour, according to a counter by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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So, $32M / hour for 320M people is 10¢ per hour for every person in the United States, or is my math in error?
If its correct, that's $876 for everyone for one year (8,760 hours in a year)...
Hummm, Tom
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