Of the "16,000" injured personnel, over half of them returned to duty. One would think they aren't going to generate years of huge long-term medical costs. As for the 20 percent with serious brain and spinal injuries, that would be about 3,200. Assuming ALL of them will need full-time medical care, what does that actually add up to?

Linda Bilmes has beaten this horse before. This article has a few more numbers in it. Note how she throws in the Federal Debt, too, and that oil price crap.

Do I get to add the Federal Debt interest to all the social programs, now?

Interesting how, with NOBODY seeing the final paper yet, this "trillion dollars" has already become carved in stone here. Look to see it all over the place, much like the "100,000 dead Iraqi civilians."