re: Potential for more Trump Bucks coming your way! New proposed legislation

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like that has a chance of making it to reality

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Don’t put anything past the stupidity of government

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Total cost for Iraq and Afghanistan combined is around $6 trillion. Not sure where you're getting your numbers.

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With enactment of the FY2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act on January 1, 2014 (H.R. 3547/P.L. 113-73), Congress has approved appropriations for the past 13 years of war that total $1.6 trillion for military operations, base support, weapons maintenance, training of Afghan and Iraq security forces, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans’ health care for the war operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks. Of this $1.6 trillion total, CRS estimates that the total is distributed as follows:

• $686 billion (43%) for Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) for Afghanistan and other counterterror operations received;

• $815 billion (51%) for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation New Dawn (OND);

• $27 billion (2%) for Operation Noble Eagle (ONE), providing enhanced security at military bases; and

• $81 billion (5%) for war-designated funding not considered directly related to the Afghanistan or Iraq wars.

About 92% of the funds are for Department of Defense (DOD), 6% for State Department foreign aid programs and diplomatic operations, 1% for Department of Veterans Administration’s medical care for veterans. In addition, 5% of the funds (across agencies) are for programs and activities tangentially-related to war operations.

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Link includes references to appropriations etc. Feel free to point any mistakes you see.

This country is so fricked

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OleWarSkuleAlum

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Holy hell man, you are the biggest imbecile on this board, and that fact alone should be staggeringly terrifying to you. The fact that natural selection hasn't taken you out is a testament to how well our species has triumphed over taking the wheel from mother nature.

I majored in Ag Engineering and attained a minor in Ag Business; I'm no economics guru, but throughout my college career I put a hell of a lot of economics classes under my belt and always did very well in them. That said, economics is no different than all of life regarding basic core principles that dictate how the more complex ones are to go.

You can get in to conceptual semantics like you're trying do, and even though you don't know what the hell you're talking about and you're wrong because you're jumping past one of the basic, core laws of economics, i.e., supply and demand (of which the amount of currency in circulation is not immune to), the basic premises of any subject matter still sets the tone regarding what is fact and fiction and all the areas in between.

With all of your half-truth, gobblygook bullshite set aside, the fact of the matter is that the more of "something" that there is, the less worth it has. Do you know how much "a trillion" is? What about trillions and trillions? Any time you dump trillions of any product into the market (and the US dollar is the federal government's product), then its importance will drastically decrease- regardless of whether or not its quantity matches the actual production of the country printing it. Yes that makes inflation worse, but the point still remains that if trillions of anything gets artificially dumped into a market then it loses value.

Have you ever heard of the 1923 hyperinflation in Germany? While the reasons for it are not exactly identical to the reasons for the day of reckoning that we will have for our endless printing of US currency, especially with these socialist roaches wanting to print untold quantities like they are wanting to do right now, the same basic premise still applies: Too much of something= a drop in its actual market value and its intrinsic value. If you don't stop then you get to the point where, as one economics professor in college said regarding inflation and the printing of currency, especially when it doesn't match a country's actual production, "You have people rolling wheelbarrows full of money down the street for a loaf of bread."

And he wasn't being sarcastic: By 1923 a loaf of bread in Germany cost 200,000,000,000 marks and children made kites out of bank notes:



Keep printing all this damn money willy nilly and it won't be worth the paper it's printed on- less actually, because the paper makes fine tinder for those cold winter months.

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Additionally, as long as GDP continues to increase and we do not have full employment inflation is not a concern

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Incorrect. As long as GDP continues to grow in EXCESS of the debt there isn’t a long term concern.

Unfortunately that has not been the trend the past few years.

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That won't pass and we can't afford it.

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Right but we can give 1.5 trillion to big business no problem

Agh frickkkkkk it

It’s just paper right, it hasn’t been backed by gold in a long time.

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Oh we certainly can if we can afford to bail out wall street we can certainly help working Americans until the quarantine is over

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If it helps out Wall Street and big business then it’s common sense investment into America.

If it benefits the working people then we can’t afford it and it’s socialism.

No generation will be able to pay all of this back. The total amount is too great. Cuts to defense spending will not help.