We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War Since 2001

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

It’s a good time to reflect on what this war — the longest in U.S. history — has cost Americans and others around the world.
First, the economic costs: According to estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the war on terror has cost Americans a staggering $5.6 trillion since 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.
$5.6 trillion. This figure includes not just the Pentagon’s war fund, but also future obligations such as social services for an ever-growing number of post-9/11 veterans.
It’s hard for most of us to even begin to grasp such an enormous number.
It means Americans spend $32 million per hour, according to a counter by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/03/21/we-have-spent-32-million-hour-war-2001?

[mitch96]

1. Can you imagine if that money was spent

For the good of the people? Social welfare, infrastructure, Science. Mind boggling...
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[guillaumeb]

2. Profit must come first.

So when conservatives state that "we cannot afford healthcare, and infrastructure spending, and education", cite this number to them.