The Cost of War
I'm sure I've seen this page sometime in the past and I'm surprised I didn't
blog it knowing what my view is of the War on "Terror". The page I'm talking
about is
www.costofwar.com. I have no way to know how accurate this
is in the slightest, but the numbers seem on par with what I've read about as
I recall. The cool thing is you can narrow it down and show what the war has
cost your city. It claims for the entire country that the cost is
$454,596,620,508 (at the moment I wrote this) and climbing
fast. The
cost for the State of Pennsylvania is $17,334,373,454. And the cost of the
City of Bethlehem is $89,907,196.
Wow, that is a
hell of a lot of money! One can't help but wonder what
just a small portion of all this money could have done domestically. I
sometimes wonder just what we have gotten, as citizens, as a return for our
investment into this war. I haven't seen anything substantial other than
costs in general rising probably due to fear and uncertainty in
the market (this may be due to many other factors), my rights worn away, privacy
eroded, and the constitution tossed out the window. Some may say we are safer
from "terrorist" than we were, but are we currently any safer from our own
government?
Perhaps I'm just being a pessimist and not seeing the good. Anyone care to
point out what I'm hopefully missing?