Cost of the current war

Post by **mjrpes** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:41 am

I just saw all the money I have ever made in my life pass before my eyes.

Post by **jester!** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:42 am

Oh but dont the Americans overall feel safer though? They have those great air marshals now, and the great Patriot Act, and I am sure education, kids health and all that will get their time in the sun once all the terrorists have been defeated right?

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:49 pm

$225bn, a bargain to bring civilisation to the fuzzy-wuzzies and realise gramps lurid fantasies of manifest destiny

BRING IT ON!

Post by **bitWISE** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:09 pm

$500m from columbus

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:25 pm

If you have problem visualising what a 87B$ is... this might help

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

Post by **Canis** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:35 pm

$153M from Yolo County in California....aww yeah, we fucking own!

Post by **R00k** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:41 pm

361M from Nashville.

Represent?

Post by **Canis** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 9:45 pm

pete wrote:If you have problem visualising what a 87B$ is... this might help

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

But then again you have to put it in the perspective of the whole national budget, which is outlined here: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac ... os/us.html

The GDP is roughly $11.75 trillion per year, which is 47x greater than the entire cost of the war so far. I'm not saying the cost of the war is justified or anything. With that argument aside, I think its ignorant for people to bias these "costs" by comparing them only to dollar amounts that are relevant to individuals (salary, the cost of a TV, etc).

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:30 pm

my philip's school atlas for 2000 gives

US GNP - $7,100,007,000,000

so $225bn = about 3.2% give or take

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:41 pm

seremtan wrote:my philip's school atlas for 2000 gives

US GNP - $7,100,007,000,000

so $225bn = about 3.2% give or take

From Canis link

Military United States Top of Page
Military branches:
Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard (Coast Guard administered in peacetime by the Department of Homeland Security, but in wartime reports to the Department of the Navy)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 67,742,879
females age 18-49: 67,070,144 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 54,609,050
females age 18-49: 54,696,706 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 2,143,873
females: 2,036,201 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$370.7 billion (FY04 est.) (March 2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.3% (FY03 est.) (February 2004)

Post by **R00k** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:45 pm

Canis wrote:
pete wrote:If you have problem visualising what a 87B$ is... this might help

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/
But then again you have to put it in the perspective of the whole national budget, which is outlined here: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac ... os/us.html

The GDP is roughly $11.75 trillion per year, which is 47x greater than the entire cost of the war so far. I'm not saying the cost of the war is justified or anything. With that argument aside, I think its ignorant for people to bias these "costs" by comparing them only to dollar amounts that are relevant to individuals (salary, the cost of a TV, etc).

What's wrong with a little fun via hyperbole?

Besides, a couple of the numbers are relevant anyway - aside from per captia figures, I thought this was interesting:

"$87 billion is more than all of the states' current budget deficits, combined. $87 billion is more than twice the amount we're spending on Homeland Security."