Current Events — HabitableZone

Current Events » in reply to Re: Wonder what the graph looks like if you add in the cost of the wars under Bush to the Bush years, and subtract them from the Obama years?

I'll even help you out.

The outlays shown on the graph already include military spending.

There's a chart in this paper about seven pages in. Go ahead and subtract the annual numbers from the appropriate point on the outlay graph to see what you get.

Ideally, you'd correct the table to constant 2005 dollars, but I think the difference would be lost in the noise.

You could cut through a lot of the crap by simply noting that the total $1.4 trillion cost of the wars to date (since 2001) aren't much higher than the deficit for just 2011.

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