Each of us has forked out $8,000 for Bush's war...

[Virginia Dare]

not to mention the lives lost, which no price can be put on. And he continues to ask for more :grr:

WASHINGTON — The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade, or nearly $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate scheduled for release Wednesday.

A previous CBO estimate put the wars' costs at more than $1.6 trillion. This one adds $705 billion in interest, taking into account that the conflicts are being funded with borrowed money.

The new estimate also includes President Bush's request Monday for another $46 billion in war funding, said Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C., budget committee chairman, who provided the CBO's new numbers to USA TODAY.

Assuming that Iraq accounts for about 80% of that total, the Iraq war would cost $1.9 trillion, including $564 million in interest, said Thomas Kahn, Spratt's staff director. The committee holds a hearing on war costs this morning.

"The number is so big, it boggles the mind," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2007-10-23-wacosts_N.htm

[ramapo]

That should piss people off

My family could've put the $32K to much better use although the defense contractors wouldn't have gotten one penny of it.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Lots of families could have paid for health care with that money..

you know, like the ones that make $80,000....:sarcasm:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. No, each of us WILL fork out $8000...

We haven't even started paying it off. :(

[tekisui]

9. Right. Currently our foreign debt owners are paying it: China, Japan.

In the future, we will pay in the form of extreme inflation. And by that time it will be beyond $8,000 apiece.

[Turbineguy]

2. As long as it costs less

than a brazillion. That would be expensive. But then there's a spazillion.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I want my fucking money back.

[bdamomma]

6. exactly.

[Deja Q]

4. Does that mean we're all Bush's constituents again?

The last I heard from people; they keep telling me he only listens to big corporate executives. Therefore, all things being equal, surely the war and its costs are solely theirs?

[Didereaux]

7. WE aren't paying it, our children and their children will be paying it....

Actually you under 50's will be paying for it by having to work until 70 or later before you get your first SocSec check, because the Gen'l Fund is nothing more than IOU's to China, Japan, and now believe ot or not RUSSIA is a major holder of US debt treasuries! Oh yeah, these Republicans really can manage money!

[flvegan]

8. I stopped payment to my check.

[Virginia Dare]

10. The Blackwater jackboots will be arriving shortly...

:evilgrin: