[wastedyears]

They should adjust 1944 for inflation and then get back to us.

[jrooney]

Considering the alternative of not taking the fight to the enemy, I say it is money well spent.

[Don Corleone]

Cost to benefit Chicken feed compared to the “earmarks”.

[InvisibleChurch]

What was the cost of the Twin Towers? What about the financial potential of 3,000 human beings, as long as we’re talking about how much things cost?

[digger48]

Mandatory spending: $1.527 trillion (+4.2%)
$608 billion (+4.5%) - Social Security
$386 billion (+5.2%) - Medicare
$209 billion (+5.6%) - Medicaid and SCHIP
$324.0 billion (+1.8%) - Unemployment/Welfare/Other mandatory spending
Discretionary spending: $1.114 trillion (+3.1%)
$481.4 billion (+12.1%) - United States Department of Defense
$145.2 billion (+45.8%) - Global War on Terror
$69.3 billion (+0.3%) - Health and Human Services
$56.0 billion (+0.0%) - United States Department of Education
$39.4 billion (+18.7%) - United States Department of Veterans Affairs
$35.2 billion (+1.4%) - US Department of Housing and Urban Development
$35.0 billion (+22.0%) - State and Other International Programs
$34.3 billion (+7.2%) - Department of Homeland Security
$24.3 billion (+6.6%) - Energy
$20.2 billion (+4.1%) - Administration of justice
$20.2 billion (+3.1%) - Department of Agriculture
$17.3 billion (+6.8%) - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$12.1 billion (+13.1%) - Department of Transportation
$12.1 billion (+6.1%) - Department of Treasury
$10.6 billion (+2.9%) - United States Department of the Interior
$10.6 billion (-9.4%) - United States Department of Labor
$51.8 billion (+9.7%) - Other On-budget Discretionary Spending
$39.0 billion - Other Off-budget Discretionary Spending
Net interest on debt: $261 billion (+9.2%)
The Iraq war and the Afghanistan war are not part of the defense budget; they are appropriations.

[ken21]

gosh, if we weren’t spending $15 b per month on

the war on terrorism, we could be spending it

on building a moat around new orleans and

giving folks mercedes.

[jrooney]

Can’t respond to your thread? You sure like to tell us how we should vote for Ron Paul from your chair in Canada.

[centurion316]

The only reason that Ted Stevens is complaining is that he hasn’t yet figured out a way to stuff more of it into his pocket. Hope he ends up sharing a cell with Congressman “Cold Cash” Jefferson.

[SoCalPol]

Hey, I have an idea. Don’t spend the money and when the IslamOfascist take over, it is that much more money they
will have.

Hey, here is another idea. How about all not include locks on your doors . That will save you money.

Hey, one more idea. Lets not fund fire and police depts.
We can really save money.

[bannie]

Since our security is the Government’s NUMBER ONE RESPONSIBILITY (It’s what we’re paying for!), I guess we’d better cut back on the frivolities—like WELFARE!!!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

How about the cost to our economy of NOT exploring for new oil on our own soil, like places like ANWR or the Gulf coast ?

[meadsjn]

Mr. Senator,

How much will total surrender cost us?

[jwalsh07]

Do you understand that we, the people of the United States, were spending upwards of 40% of GDP in World War 2 and about 16% during the Korean War?

Any guess how much we're spending now on Defense and the Iraq/Afghanistan appropriations as a percent of GDP?

[El Gato]

How much would rebuilding NY, LA, DC, Dallas-Ft.Worth, or any number of other cities, destroyed by a nuke, or even just contaminated by a dirty bomb, cost? Hmm?

[OCCASparky]

And most of that is going into “improvements” on his house. Dude is a corrupt hack RINO who needed to go 20 years ago.

[metesky]

Federal budget = $3 trillion a year

Fighting and killing our enemies = $180 million a year

A drop in the bucket and money well spent.

[Ann Archy]

I guess Steven’s would rather use that money to fix his house!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Money well spent, IMHO.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[NeoCaveman]

This cost of this war is approaching $15 billion a month, with the Army spending $4.2 billion of that every month," Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska), the ranking Republican on the Appropriations defense subcommittee, said in a little-noticed floor speech Dec. 18.

Which is severely cutting into his yummy yummy pork and his bridges to nowhere.