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http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/memanuel/headshot_emanuel.jpg Mike Emanuel (http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/author/memanuel/)
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How Much Does Afghanistan Surge Cost You?
April 21, 2010 - 12:28 PM | by: Mike Emanuel (http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/author/memanuel/)
This installment of "Taxpayer Calculator" will examine what it costs the military, and you, the taxpayer, to run two overseas wars.
President Obama announced in late 2009 a plan to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. The administration sent its request for funds to Congress in February, but the bill hasn’t been voted on yet -- even though more than half of the troops are already in place now.
Because the cost of the surge wasn’t factored in when lawmakers were hashing out the 2010 budget, President Obama had to ask for an additional $33 billion to fund the surge.
You can find out how much of your salary goes to fund this war supplemental by using our Taxpayer Calculator. (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/supplemental-spending.htm)
The bill is expected to pass, but the House has been slow in taking it up. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., says they plan bring it the floor before the Memorial Day recess.
The additional war spending is on top of the Defense Department's base budget for 2010 of $661 billion. Asking for the extra cash separately is a move many commanders-in-chief, including President Bush during the Iraq surge, have done in the past.
A small fraction of that $33 billion supplemental request goes to projects in Iraq. The Iraqi Security Forces, for example, are set to receive $1 billion.
The DOD is averaging about $5.1 billion a month for Iraq this fiscal year, and most of that is coming from money appropriated for the war effort in the 2010 budget.
The military plans to draw down to 50,000 troops in Iraq by the end of the summer. Lt. Gen. William Webster of the Third Army in Iraq told Pentagon reporters earlier this month that the cost of moving out of Iraq will cost tens of billions of dollars.
At the rate we're spending in Afghanistan in 2010, the Department of Defense is burning $4.5 billion a month.
Since September 11th, 2001, the Pentagon has spent $837 billion on all war related activities, according to its own calculations. In Afghanistan alone the U.S. has spent $191 billion. Also, the total cost for Iraq since the invasion in March 2003 is $620 billion.
No war is won on the cheap, it is a hell of a lot of money.
However its a hell of a lot blood spilt.
So any financial types out there, you are getting the job done cheaply in $'s.
Ask the Mother or loved ones about the nations cost, they will tell you, its not in dollars.
So sip your coffee and read your wall street paper and, "Ssshhhh", somewhere a mother grieves,
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/wp-content/Cimy_User_Extra_Fields/memanuel/headshot_emanuel.jpg Mike Emanuel (http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/author/memanuel/)
Washington, DC
10
comments
How Much Does Afghanistan Surge Cost You?
April 21, 2010 - 12:28 PM | by: Mike Emanuel (http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/author/memanuel/)
This installment of "Taxpayer Calculator" will examine what it costs the military, and you, the taxpayer, to run two overseas wars.
President Obama announced in late 2009 a plan to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. The administration sent its request for funds to Congress in February, but the bill hasn’t been voted on yet -- even though more than half of the troops are already in place now.
Because the cost of the surge wasn’t factored in when lawmakers were hashing out the 2010 budget, President Obama had to ask for an additional $33 billion to fund the surge.
You can find out how much of your salary goes to fund this war supplemental by using our Taxpayer Calculator. (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/supplemental-spending.htm)
The bill is expected to pass, but the House has been slow in taking it up. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., says they plan bring it the floor before the Memorial Day recess.
The additional war spending is on top of the Defense Department's base budget for 2010 of $661 billion. Asking for the extra cash separately is a move many commanders-in-chief, including President Bush during the Iraq surge, have done in the past.
A small fraction of that $33 billion supplemental request goes to projects in Iraq. The Iraqi Security Forces, for example, are set to receive $1 billion.
The DOD is averaging about $5.1 billion a month for Iraq this fiscal year, and most of that is coming from money appropriated for the war effort in the 2010 budget.
The military plans to draw down to 50,000 troops in Iraq by the end of the summer. Lt. Gen. William Webster of the Third Army in Iraq told Pentagon reporters earlier this month that the cost of moving out of Iraq will cost tens of billions of dollars.
At the rate we're spending in Afghanistan in 2010, the Department of Defense is burning $4.5 billion a month.
Since September 11th, 2001, the Pentagon has spent $837 billion on all war related activities, according to its own calculations. In Afghanistan alone the U.S. has spent $191 billion. Also, the total cost for Iraq since the invasion in March 2003 is $620 billion.
No war is won on the cheap, it is a hell of a lot of money.
However its a hell of a lot blood spilt.
So any financial types out there, you are getting the job done cheaply in $'s.
Ask the Mother or loved ones about the nations cost, they will tell you, its not in dollars.
So sip your coffee and read your wall street paper and, "Ssshhhh", somewhere a mother grieves,