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Originally posted by Spanky
What is the annual budget now 2.5 Trillion? So what is that 1.4% of the money our government will spend this decade? The middle east is one of the few places in the world that isn't accepting democracy and free markets. If we could turn that trend around by implementing a stable and democratic, free enterprize democracy right in the heart of the middle east, isn't that worth more than 1.4%? It has cost us .001% of our populatoin so far. We lose ten times that number every day naturally.
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How is the proportion of spending on Iraq to a decade's worth of spending relevant?
We've been in Iraq, what, a little over 3.5 years? So that's about $100 billion per year, or 4% of the (current) annual budget, each year.
Is that more or less than the percentage of the budget that is financed by adding to the national debt?
How does that compare to the amount we spend on humanitarian aid, etc., in developing countries?
