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To: bentway who wrote (856968)	5/14/2015 11:11:44 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576663

>> Poor Iraq victims, like these guys, just won't DIE! THANKS, W! You've been posting those same pictures for years. Are you discounting the cost of their care? Because you have to do that. You can't just keep counting the dollars at face value. They're not worth now what they were ten years ago. And that matters. Because unfunded liabilities COMPOUND each year. While the cost of the Iraq War is discounted back to when the war ended. You can't say the cost was $3 Trillion ten years ago, and have that same 3 Trillion be 7 Trillion today. The dollars that are spent today are cheaper than the dollars that were projected to be spent ten years ago. By the time you properly discount the cost of the Iraq War it doesn't come close to the unfunded liability for SS, let alone for these other programs that are such a problem.