U.S. Taxpayer Money Spent in Iraq:
• $800 billion (That's $12 billion per month in 2008)
Missing, Lost or Mismanaged Money in Iraq:
• $9 billion disappeared
• $549.7 milion in spare parts
• 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles
• $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services
• $1.4 billion in Halliburton overcharges
• $3.2 billion in questionable charges by KBR
And over 35,000 American military casualties. (Source)
Yet the Republicans think the recovery bill is wasteful, irresponsible spending even though, according to the CBO, the bill would grow the economy and create 2.5 million new jobs this year alone. We're talking about upwards of 4.1 percent increase in the GDP in 2009. That's a lot. Instead, the very serious U.S. Senate has managed to slash the equivalent total of between 1 and 2.5 million new jobs from the bill.
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