Are the costs of those last 206 years items adjusted for variations
in the value of the dollar over that time? ($1M bought a lot more
back when we were buying Louisiana than it did when we were paying for
Apollo missions..)
[Also, concurring with David that WWII doesn't seem to be in there.
One estimate I saw was around $288B to $341B in 1945 USD. One estimate
of current value of that would be about $2.09T in 1990 USD, probably
more now. Probably ballpark numbers given the spread of the cost over
4 years of US involvement in WWII and fluctuations in dollar values
over that time (not to mention some of the financial craziness that
went on during the mobilization where procurement amounted to however
much of X you can make for however much you bid on it and we need it
YESTERDAY, there's a war on, dont'cha know, so a lot of the smaller
manufacturing/procurement is hard to put a firm dollar value on).]
On Aug 26, 2010, at 6:00 PM, KZK wrote:
This Graph puts the 23Trillion in Perspective:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/79361...@n00/4868316187/
Obama's Kleptocratic Banksters aren't really very different from
Bush's.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual
ignorance. -- H. L. Mencken
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