The year is 2009 C.E. If from the first day of the first month of the year 0

[rateyes]

(The year ZERO) until today, a person spent a million dollars a day...that's 1 million a day for 2009 years...that person will, as of today, still spent less money than this country has spent on the Iraq/Afghanistan War in the last 6 years.

The math: 2009 yrs. x 365 days = 733,285 days

733,285 days x $1,000,000.00 = $733,285,000,000.00...that's 733 billion 285 million dollars.

We've spent more than a TRILLION dollars on those wars--one of which is obviously illegal, and one which is questionably moral.

And, the Republicans are bitching about a jobs bill. Go figure.

[Bolo Boffin]

1. There is no year zero in the common era accounting of years.

It goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE, but your point is otherwise well made.

[leftstreet]

2. Has the US actually spent that much, or just gone in debt for it?

:shrug: