22 billion dollars in an account, war veterans money?
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You believe him.\n\nGo get your FREE money.\n\nVote like he tells you.\n\nMake a sign that says "________ is a Liar!"\n\nHe'll tell you whose name goes there.\n\nThere's a name for someone that can be bought. . .
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it was $26,000,000 for a plane
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if your adventerous, get a job over here in iraq like i did.  i came over here $125,000 in debt back in 2003.  by next april, i will be totally debt free.  i would have been done a lot sooner, but i splurged a little on my vacations.  i'm with halliburton(kbr), but there are many companies over here that pay well.  the first $80,000 is tax free.  each month i bring home anywhere between $8,000 to $11,000 a month(bring home), depending on if it is a four or five week month.  it can be dangerous at times, but i have been here 3 1/2 years and i still have all my fingers and toes.  good luck.
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I have a real concern about this.  It is hard to believe this got through by attaching it to a Military spending bill.  I don't like the parallels it runs to the Biblical "Mark"\nWithout this National ID, you won't... \nDrive your car \nBoard a plane, train, or bus \nEnter any federal building \nOpen a bank account \nHold a job \nIf you can’t hold a job or have a bank account, how much buying and selling will you be able to do?
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Just a bit over 200 million
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seven million dollars
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Remember that members of the military get paid not only by rank/pay grade but also by number of years in.  This is as of Jan 1 2006\n\nPay is as follows (without benefits)\nO-10 13365-14196 (20years-26 years)\nO-9   11689-12525 "                            "\nO-8   8271-11348 (<2-26)   11075 (at 20 years)\nO-7   6872-10066 (<2-26)   10015 "                  "\n\nI've never met an O-7 or above with less than 20years but the site had the numbers, so they're shown.\n\nWhen you get up there you start raking in the money, especially as a nuke...benefits add a few thousand dollars on all of these figures.
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pay for that damn war
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Actually, military spending is an extremely inefficient way of spending money (which I believe was your point).\n\nI was talking to an economist who argues that if the money the United States had put into the military since 1945 had been spent in the civilian sector instead, the GDP would have grown 32-fold over what it is now... a $350 trillion economy. There would be "cruises to Mars and Jupiter" under the "Travel" section of Answers.
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200,000,000 trillion dollars on military alone.
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First thank you mpltmiller, we as a Country owe you a huge debt for the time, danger and just general horribleness that I can't even imagine, and I mean that with all my heart.  My dad was an American pilot in WWII; He earned a purple Heart and the Silver Star Medal.My guess is what you're seeing is a generation who doesn't realize the REAL value in these "tokens", because they are not tokens, they are symbols of gratitude and freedom and life\nthat we bestow on our heroes.  I would find it hard to believe that someone who was bestowed such an honor would go on Ebay for a couple of bucks. So it's either knockoffs or some poor ignorant, mentally challenged fool who inherited them or got them through illegal ways
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about 10,000 total. The casualties figure has  historically ALWAYS included both dead and wounded, but this wierd administration has decided to clean up the reports and leave out wounded. This makes the figure 80% lower. \n\nThe actual cost of caring for these wounded vets is a hidden cost of the war. it is a lot cheaper for the government if they get killed.  This cost continues for the lifetime of the wounded vets, many of whom are quite young. This war has many amputess, almost like the civil war of America, as the old fashioned bombs they use are like civil war weapons in effect on personnel (blows them to bits) Just facts. No politics.
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Serving your country should never be about the financial gain. I'm personally considering enlisting in the Reserves because I can not afford the pay cut of full time enlistment. By can't afford I mean I would not be able to make my mortage and care for my family. Additionally $20,000 is not very much money. In terms of motivating me personally with a large sum of money to do something  I don't want to do, you would need to give me enough to buy a nice piece of property. 20g hardly buys a nice truck!
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The source below says that it was Wilson, who jumped from outlays of $713 million in 1916 to $1.954 billion in 1917 because of the costs of WWI. However, they lump all of 1789-1849 and 1850-1900 into two large categories. However, it is unlikely that spending reached one billion dollars during that period.
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Hmm $25 million. That could buy a lot of weapons for Al Qaida couldn't it?
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About 4.2 Billion Dollars.\n\nSo far all the figures listed above aren't even close.  Whose the idiot that said only 1 million and 100K??
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360 million american dollars