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To: TimF who wrote (333866)	4/18/2007 4:50:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573432

You bandy about these percentages like they mean something. We have spent a half billion dollars on this war. Because they do. In fact when determining how much of a strain the spending places on a country they are the most important single statistic. They aren't the only thing to consider, but nominal dollars spent are an almost meaningless figure, far less important that the percentage of GDP. A percentage that small can't break our countries fiscal back. As for combining them with other spending. Well any spending combined with all over spending could be said to be a fiscal strain, but the strong majority of the stain is from the other spending, not from Iraq. First of all, the cost of the war is mostly outside the expenditures for defense....combine the two and you have a mighty big percentage. Secondly, you can play with percentages all you want but the reality is fiscally the US house is in serious disorder.