Member Profile Total number of comments: 4 (since 2014-02-08 14:43:40) Alex Showing comments 4 - 1Page: 1 Top Ten Ways your Taxes pay for Endless War Alex 07/26/2017 at 3:05 pm Add $650 billion per year for NATO. Last year I ball park estimated the cost of tax cuts and defense since Bush 2001 was $77.5 trillion. http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/07/honest-campaign-if-elected-i-promise-to-give-trillions-to-the-rich-spend-trillions-on-war-and-cut-everything-for-working-people/ What did we buy with the $5 Trillion that the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars have cost us? Alex 09/13/2016 at 4:34 pm Also, Since 1775, the U.S. Has Been At War With Someone Somewhere For 213 Out Of 242 Years (88% of its’ Existence) http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/05/17/since-1775-the-u-s-has-been-at-war-with-someone-somewhere-for-213-out-of-242-years-88-of-its-existence/ The longest war is 55 years: Texas-Indian wars 2nd longest is 49 years: Apache wars --and-- U.S. is 240 Years Old and It Has Spent Over 469 Years Fighting Wars: List of U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/08/03/u-s-is-240-years-old-and-it-has-spent-over-469-years-fighting-wars-list-of-u-s-wars-at-home-and-abroad/ --and-- Presidents with most wars during their term: Obama: 18 Pierce: 14 Buchanan: 13 Lincoln & A Johnson: 12 Grant & Wilson: 10 http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/16/fight-club-the-u-s-wars-continue-to-increase-in-number-exponentially/ alex 09/13/2016 at 11:50 am with 1 replies That's $5 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan alone. When you include all the defense-related things like intelligence, NATO, USAID, military excursions, etc, it's more like $38,655,190,993,638 ($38.65 trillion) since 2001. http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/07/honest-campaign-if-elected-i-promise-to-give-trillions-to-the-rich-spend-trillions-on-war-and-cut-everything-for-working-people/ And that's a ballpark estimate. I've showed Professor Crawford my figures a couple of months ago. Also, under Bush, the US had wars in 4 countries; under Obama it has been 18 countries. http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/16/fight-club-the-u-s-wars-continue-to-increase-in-number-exponentially/ Btw, there's also this: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/?redirect=cow McKibben: Crunch Time for Obama on Keystone XL Alex 02/08/2014 at 6:57 am I think people were naive in believing they had won the day when Obama said he was postponing a decision until after the 2012 election. Obama's a company man and he serves his masters well. Everyone else, well not so much, but thanks for the vote over that Romney guy. Showing comments 4 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
Add $650 billion per year for NATO.
Last year I ball park estimated the cost of tax cuts and defense since Bush 2001 was $77.5 trillion.
http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/07/honest-campaign-if-elected-i-promise-to-give-trillions-to-the-rich-spend-trillions-on-war-and-cut-everything-for-working-people/
Also,
Since 1775, the U.S. Has Been At War With Someone Somewhere For 213 Out Of 242 Years (88% of its’ Existence)
http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/05/17/since-1775-the-u-s-has-been-at-war-with-someone-somewhere-for-213-out-of-242-years-88-of-its-existence/
The longest war is 55 years: Texas-Indian wars
2nd longest is 49 years: Apache wars
--and--
U.S. is 240 Years Old and It Has Spent Over 469 Years Fighting Wars: List of U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad
http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/08/03/u-s-is-240-years-old-and-it-has-spent-over-469-years-fighting-wars-list-of-u-s-wars-at-home-and-abroad/
--and--
Presidents with most wars during their term:
Obama: 18
Pierce: 14
Buchanan: 13
Lincoln & A Johnson: 12
Grant & Wilson: 10
http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/16/fight-club-the-u-s-wars-continue-to-increase-in-number-exponentially/
That's $5 trillion for Iraq and Afghanistan alone.
When you include all the defense-related things like intelligence, NATO, USAID, military excursions, etc, it's more like $38,655,190,993,638 ($38.65 trillion) since 2001. http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/07/honest-campaign-if-elected-i-promise-to-give-trillions-to-the-rich-spend-trillions-on-war-and-cut-everything-for-working-people/
And that's a ballpark estimate.
I've showed Professor Crawford my figures a couple of months ago.
Also, under Bush, the US had wars in 4 countries; under Obama it has been 18 countries.
http://newdealprogressives.org/blog/2016/07/16/fight-club-the-u-s-wars-continue-to-increase-in-number-exponentially/
Btw, there's also this:
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/?redirect=cow
I think people were naive in believing they had won the day when Obama said he was postponing a decision until after the 2012 election.
Obama's a company man and he serves his masters well. Everyone else, well not so much, but thanks for the vote over that Romney guy.