OT The U.S. has wasted over $14 trillion on warfare over the past three decades

no

 

your statement is nothing more than speculation......which is fine...but you harp on Obama's debt with no reference to the cost of war during his term relating to the debt....as if they were separated ......you seem to have no problem with Trump's bankruptcies however....and he definitely used debt to solve his problems ..the govt spent over half a million dollars fitting a war vet friend of mine with a prosthetic limb.....I guess that's also bad accounting..let's say there were more than one of these soldiers to fix after the fact..the last strike in Syria of 59 missles at over a million per missile....you see....it adds up really fast.

 

I think you're ignoring costs ......

you started in this thread saying you think the numbers are wrong....then escalate to posting you know they are wrong......but Obama!!!!!!! OK..if you think none of our debt is connected to military expenses.....I say you're once again witch hunting for Obama ammo...hint....Obama hasn't been prez for 3 decades either....

 

Regardless of how much money was spent, it was wasted and we don't have our fucking priorities straight.

 

That was a republican bill passed by republicans (and Ron Wyden's punk ass).

And you can't have it both ways. Y'all can't say on one hand Obama cut medicare by billions and then say he "dialed it up".

 

When you spend trillions on war, how much do you have for:

Payment on the debt
Infrastructure

Hell, EVERYTHING....

Spending on war means you can't spend where you're supposed to. Like getting on track to pay this debt down. You still don't say anything about Obama cutting the deficit by 2/3rds... BUSH'S deficit...

 

you are not following the thread title.....3 decades is 30 years....you stop less than one decade ago...so of course you haven't seen it....you haven't looked..and if you did, you ignored the cost of rehab and benefits paid to vets for 30 years...plus the cost of training peace keeping forces of other nations after the fact..etc...it's a long list.....also the cost of investing in upgrades to the military over those years....it's substantial whether you see it or not..and as dviss says....it's all for naught...wasted money. Maintaining our nuclear arsenal, troops in foreign countries and military bases in Turkey, Germany, Korea...etc.....

 

I swear Denny... This is such a load...

 

There are several factors you're not counting in....disability, rehab, college tuition, veterans children's benefits for life...etc...and rebuilding places we bomb the shit out of....I don't really care about the dollar amount but actually since Truman we've spent a constantly escalating figure on the war machines....and research into new war machines......I think you're focused on combat action and active duty costs...

 

Budget by Year[edit]
The following is historical spending on defense from 1996-2015, spending for 2014-15 is estimated.[1] The Defense Budget is shown in billions of dollars and total budget in trillions of dollars. The percentage of the total U.S. budget spent on defense is indicated in the third row, and change in defense spending from the previous year in the final row.

1990s 2000s 2010s
96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
Defense Budget (Billions) 266 270 271 292 304 335 362 456 491 506 556 625 696 698 721 717 681 610 614 637
Total Budget (Trillions) 1.58 1.64 1.69 1.78 1.82 1.96 2.09 2.27 2.41 2.58 2.78 2.86 3.32 4.08 3.48 3.51 3.58 3.48 3.64 3.97
Defense Budget % 16.8 16.5 16.0 16.4 16.7 17.1 17.3 20.1 20.4 19.6 20.0 21.9 20.9 17.1 20.7 20.4 19.1 17.5 16.8 16.0
Defense Spending % Change -0.1 +1.6 +0.2 +7.8 +4.0 +10.1 +8.2 +26.0 +7.6 +3.1 +10.0 +12.5 +11.3 +0.2 +3.4 -0.6 -5.0 -10.5 +0.6 +3.8
add the trillions column from 96 -2016 and you get quite a few trillion more than you say Denny