So far the war on Iraq has not been cheap for anyone. It seems that all we do is spend and spend as if the money will just appear out of the air when we need it. However that is far from the case. All the money that is spent on the war comes for us, the hard-working taxpayers.
On December 26, 2007 a war-spending bill was approved by the U.S. congress. This package included just about $90.9 billion that would be for spending on operations such as the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the “war on terror”. With the added $90 billion the grand total for spending added up to about $700 billion. Those fighting in Iraq received a big chunk of about $562 billion to spend. You can find out more by clicking here. You would think that a couple billion dollars would be enough to hold up for a while but no, all they need is more and more. And where is this more money coming from? Hard-working Americans! All of our taxes are used for fighting wars. Think about what we could be doing with all that money if it wasn’t spent on mostly war. For one, things would be a lot better than they are now.
On December 26, 2007 a war-spending bill was approved by the U.S. congress. This package included just about $90.9 billion that would be for spending on operations such as the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the “war on terror”. With the added $90 billion the grand total for spending added up to about $700 billion. Those fighting in Iraq received a big chunk of about $562 billion to spend. You can find out more by clicking here. You would think that a couple billion dollars would be enough to hold up for a while but no, all they need is more and more. And where is this more money coming from? Hard-working Americans! All of our taxes are used for fighting wars. Think about what we could be doing with all that money if it wasn’t spent on mostly war. For one, things would be a lot better than they are now.
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Wow, that is a lot of money to be used for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the "war on terror." We could make better use with all these money for better eductions, like funding for schools to have better lunches or better environments to learn in. The war in Iraq is basically a waste of time and money for the United States. We are spending money on something that Bush wants us to believe but does not exist in the first place. All was caused by him.
It is very interesting to know this fact about the massive amount of money that the U.S. government uses on these wars.
This is the thing that gets me mad about he war on Iraq. Even the people that dont agree with going to war still have to pay for it. This sucks for everybody. Cant we all just get along? ;)
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