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Iraq War Could Cost
More than $6 Trillion
Reuters, by Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll
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Posted By:viola, 3/15/2013 9:32:27 AM
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| The Iraq war has cost the U.S. more than $2 trillion so far and with interest could swell to more than $6 trillion, according to a study released Thursday. The study, part of the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, drew from actual expenditures from the U.S. Treasury and future commitments.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
tbrown, 3/15/2013 9:59:50 AM (No. 9226346)
Still waiting on the article on how much the War of Poverty has cost the us since the beginning of LBJ´s Great Society.
The black community and family structure has been destroyed, we are in our 4h or 5th generation of hopelessness and dispair. We have babies having babies 14 year old mothers, 28 year old grandmothers, and 45 year old great grandmothers. We have a welfare system that financially encourages there be no male in the home structure.
Yes Rueters, how much has the War on Poverty cost us? What a total waste of money.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
paloalto, 3/15/2013 10:32:39 AM (No. 9226448)
Liberals are so boring and so predictable.
Six trillion dollars? That´s a convenient number. Kinda rings a bell.
The $6 trillion deficit? It´s Bush´s fault. From his illegal war. Where there were no WMDs. Blah, blah, blah.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Texan1stCavDad, 3/15/2013 10:38:17 AM (No. 9226472)
I´d pay twice that for the live return of one dead to his family.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 3/15/2013 10:42:42 AM (No. 9226487)
2 trillion so far??? I don´t think so. Zero´s golf trips? Maybe. But not the Iraq war.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tomishere, 3/15/2013 10:42:46 AM (No. 9226488)
You will be waiting a long time #1
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
curious1, 3/15/2013 10:46:25 AM (No. 9226494)
And what´s Afghanistan costing us with the zero in charge?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
A Balrog of Morgoth, 3/15/2013 12:45:46 PM (No. 9226735)
With interest, huh? Well, at least they acknowledge that borrowing money exposes one to having to pay interest.
How much will JEF´s deficitopalooza cost us, with interest?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
A Balrog of Morgoth, 3/15/2013 12:47:28 PM (No. 9226739)
P.S. Check out the comments following the article for a real look at the truly braindead.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
billa, 3/15/2013 12:48:28 PM (No. 9226742)
What is worse...is read the Army Times...our soldiers and their families are having to pay out of their own expenses that the military is supposed to provide. Including such things as health care, travel home, ammunition, uniforms and other necessities for our men and women in harms way. It is almost like BO is doing this on purpose. Just read the article about his "green" scam ginormous tax.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mickturn, 3/15/2013 3:08:56 PM (No. 9226920)
So WHEN do we get oil to pay for all that?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
PI65, 3/15/2013 4:07:04 PM (No. 9226994)
Mistake from the beginning. Semper Fi
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Iraq War Could Cost
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Reuters, by Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll
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Posted By: viola- 3/15/2013 9:32:27 AM
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The Iraq war has cost the U.S. more than $2 trillion so far and with interest could swell to more than $6 trillion, according to a study released Thursday. The study, part of the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, drew from actual expenditures from the U.S. Treasury and future commitments.
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Republican governors embrace
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Washington Post, by Sarah Kliff
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Posted By: viola- 2/8/2013 8:54:17 AM
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Several Republican governors have embraced a key pillar of President Obama’s health-care law: Extending Medicaid to 17 million Americans. Many Republicans balked at the expansion when the Supreme Court made the Medicaid expansion optional in its ruling last in the summer. Supporters of the law worried that the opposition could undermine the entire health-care overhaul by shrinking the pool of Americans who would gain coverage. But six Republican governors have since come to back the program, including Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday and Ohio’s John Kasich on Monday. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced her support in mid-January.
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: viola- 1/5/2013 12:16:25 PM
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Chevy Volt sales are cranking up. General Motors sold three times as many Chevrolet Volts in 2012 as it did in 2011, which was the car´s first full year on the market. GM sold 23,461 Volts in 2012 compared with just 7,671 in 2011. While it´s an impressive jump, the Volt is still one of Chevy´s lowest-selling cars. However, the Volt greatly outdid the Corvette, for instance, of which only 14,000 were sold last year.
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Romney: Obama ‘Did Not’ Raise Taxes
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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