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$735,700,000,000
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unhappycamper
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Fri Feb 15th 2008, 10:00 AM
That's the
budget
for the Department of Defense for 2009. (Iraq and Afghanistan are costing us $12,000,000,000 to $13,000,000,000 a week.)
That's almost 3/4 of a trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) dollars.
Can someone please tell me
why
?
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