What has Reno, Nevada got to show for $1 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 20:29 As of 10:06 a.m., Sunday, May 30th, the United States will have spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Perhaps it’s a sad sort of poetic justic that this milestone should come as we all celebrate those family members and friends who’ve served our country. But, it couldn’t be a better time to take stock - getting a reality check might be a better way of thinking of it - about our continuing involvement in two wars, despite having elected a president who campaigned as an anti-war president.
Congress goes on vacation, having allowed for a third time this year to allow extended unemployment benefits to lapse. It’s just too expensive.
The long fought health care reform package, estimated at a 10 year cost of $1 trillion has been deemed by opponents as too expensive for America.
A billing pending in Congress will add another $37 billion to this year’s spending.
Representative John Conyers had this to say about what war spending has really cost:
“What could we have purchased with this $1 trillion?
