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>You can also drill down to your area so see your share of the cost. Also links to see what else the money could have bought.
Really depressing.
Somewhere else I saw that U.S. military spending was almost half the total military spending of the entire World. One wonders what that will do to their economy - and to the World economy - although there are other important factors to consider (like, the three quarters of a million dead in Iraq).
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
