Would you rather spend $787 billion in the US or in Iraq ??

[kentuck]

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2365065420080124

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War funding, which averaged about $93 billion a year from 2003 through 2005, rose to $120 billion in 2006 and $171 billion in 2007 and President George W. Bush has asked for $193 billion in 2008, the nonpartisan office wrote.

"It keeps going up, up and away," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said of the money spent in Iraq since U.S. troops invaded in 2003.

"We're seeing the war costs continue to spiral upward. It is the additional troops plus additional costs per troop plus the over-reliance on private contractors, which also explodes the costs," said Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat who opposed the war.

Since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Congress has written checks for $691 billion to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and such related activities as Iraq reconstruction, the CBO said.
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Mitch McConnell says if we spent $1 million dollars per day since Jesus was born....

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/02/forgive_me_lord_for_mitch_has_sinned.php

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TPM Reader BW has had it with Mitch McConnell's new gag line that if you spent $1 million every day since the day Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent $1 trillion:

This may be maddening and juvenile but Democratic lawmakers have to knock these sound bytes down with their own.

Please, anyone:

"Senator McConnell is flaunting his economic ignorance because if you started the day Jesus was born and created TWENTY million dollars in wealth every day you would have the wealth created in the US economy each year. AND if you flushed TWO million dollars down the toilet every day since Jesus was born you would have the credit losses in the US economy just last year. AND if you flushed THREE million a day, you would have lost less than the money that this recession is projected to cost by the end of next year. We no longer measure boats by cubits and we should not design economic stimulus based on a Jesus' birthday, so will the Minority Leader please either engage in a serious talk about economic policy or step aside and let the adults handle it?"

I haven't checked BW's math, but I think we can safely assume that the numbers are out there to support a riff along these lines, if not this precise one.

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IT'S OBVIOUS THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE NO PROBLEM SPENDING MONEY EVERYWHERE EXCEPT THE GOOD OLD USA...