# $2,400,000,000,000 **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584 "2007-10-25T07:50:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/1 "2007-10-25T07:50:01Z")
[http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2450753720071024](http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2450753720071024) > The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money, according to a study released on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Carnut](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/carnut/32/7590_2.png) [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 7:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/2 "2007-10-25T07:51:50Z")
:picard: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/3 "2007-10-25T07:52:50Z")
Waste of fucking money…let’s add Iran and a few other countries that “have” weapons of mass destruction or are harbouring terrorists and get that number a bit higher. This country is falling apart and in resession and here we are spending on foreign policy. ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/4 "2007-10-25T08:11:57Z")
Sometimes I stop and look at what happened to the Roman empire and see it hitting home a lot faster and harder then anyone seems to think. This country isn’t what is was at the start of the 20th century, and no one seems to notice. Sometimes I stop and think what would happen if the government failed. Would it really be that bad is the bottom half of society was abolished? People would have to “think” for themselves, and be aware of their surroundings. Our society is a FAIL BOAT. ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/5 "2007-10-25T08:19:37Z")
Come on. Spending that much for a war is SO MUCH more important than helping counties and cities in debt, provide funding for schools, help cut college costs by providing more grants and scholarships, or even creating more public works projects to provide more jobs. Even the war is bullshit and we shouldn’t be there, I do have the up most respect for anyone over there fighting… ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/6 "2007-10-25T08:31:10Z")
How much has it pumped into our economy? Don’t forget that most of that money is going to US citizens through MOOG, Servotronics, etc, etc, etc. Not to mention the service men and women. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/7 "2007-10-25T08:38:12Z")
[quote=“AWDrifter,post:6,topic:37584"”] How much has it pumped into our economy? Don’t forget that most of that money is going to US citizens through MOOG, Servotronics, etc, etc, etc. Not to mention the service men and women. [/quote] Most of the world now hates Americans The US dollar is down…worth less than the Canadian Dollar, Euro and many others No health Care for 40% of the citizens Business are moving out over seas where labor is cheap Cost of living going up… -Need I go on? ---
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/8 "2007-10-25T08:47:45Z")
[quote=“Marcus,post:7,topic:37584"”] Most of the world now hates Americans The US dollar is down…worth less than the Canadian Dollar, Euro and many others No health Care for 40% of the citizens Business are moving out over seas where labor is cheap Cost of living going up… -Need I go on? [/quote] :word: I have respect for the soldiers, not for the war. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/harvey/32/5069_2.png) [@Harvey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Harvey)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/9 "2007-10-25T08:49:05Z")
If we’d just steal there oil, this war could have a 1 year payback… ---
**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/10 "2007-10-25T08:51:07Z")
We are stealing their oil. I was on a ship for 6 months guarding the Mina al bakr oil terminal in the middle of the Persian Gulf. The only ships we let come in that place were american. We’re jacking the hell out of them. ---
**Author:** ![camarojoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/11 "2007-10-25T08:52:08Z")
[quote=“EvilJay,post:10,topic:37584"”] We are stealing their oil. I was on a ship for 6 months guarding the Mina al bakr oil terminal in the middle of the Persian Gulf. The only ships we let come in that place were american. We’re jacking the hell out of them. [/quote] if so, then who is reaping those benefits? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/12 "2007-10-25T08:57:48Z")
[quote=“Marcus,post:7,topic:37584"”] Most of the world now hates Americans The US dollar is down…worth less than the Canadian Dollar, Euro and many others No health Care for 40% of the citizens Business are moving out over seas where labor is cheap Cost of living going up… -Need I go on? [/quote] No that would be pointless. ---
**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/13 "2007-10-25T08:59:09Z")
[quote=“camarojoe,post:11,topic:37584"”] if so, then who is reaping those benefits? [/quote] Sure as hell isn’t you and me. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/14 "2007-10-25T09:01:22Z")
The people that are doing the work are reaping the benefits, that’s how this country works. Sorry if you haven’t gotten any free hand-outs.:gotme: This aint Russia. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/15 "2007-10-25T09:02:44Z")
[quote=“eesti,post:9,topic:37584"”] If we’d just steal there oil, this war could have a 1 year payback… [/quote] I am sure we are there to steal the oil but the American people will NEVER see a dime or less of a fuel cost…and not to mention Bush and his family are “oil” investors so why should they give a shit if oil price goes up? They dont because they are aways making money. ---
**Author:** ![RuBiCaNT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rubicant/32/7622_2.png) [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/16 "2007-10-25T09:16:18Z")
[quote=“EvilJay,post:10,topic:37584"”] We are stealing their oil. I was on a ship for 6 months guarding the Mina al bakr oil terminal in the middle of the Persian Gulf. The only ships we let come in that place were american. We’re jacking the hell out of them. [/quote] “we” aren’t stealing, Haliburton is “helping” them to refine it so they can make their money selling it to Exxon and give the rest of Europe and the Western world a few cents off a gallon. You really gotta feel for the Europeans, they are paying what equates to almost $5 per liter for gasoline. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/harvey/32/5069_2.png) [@Harvey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Harvey)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/17 "2007-10-25T09:18:19Z")
[quote=“EvilJay,post:10,topic:37584"”] We are stealing their oil. I was on a ship for 6 months guarding the Mina al bakr oil terminal in the middle of the Persian Gulf. The only ships we let come in that place were american. We’re jacking the hell out of them. [/quote] We were probably paying top dollar for every drop. ---
**Author:** ![nappy1380](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nappy1380/32/7502_2.png) [@nappy1380](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nappy1380)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/18 "2007-10-25T09:33:06Z")
InB4TheRednecksChimeInAndSayItWasWorthIt ---
**Author:** ![hondaride22](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hondaride22/32/5077_2.png) [@hondaride22](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/hondaride22)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/19 "2007-10-25T09:36:00Z")
[quote=“Marcus,post:3,topic:37584"”] Waste of fucking money…let’s add Iran and a few other countries that “have” weapons of mass destruction or are harbouring terrorists and get that number a bit higher. This country is falling apart and in resession and here we are spending on foreign policy. [/quote] +100 ---
**Author:** ![snowracer101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@snowracer101](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowracer101)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584/20 "2007-10-25T10:24:17Z")
[quote=“RuBiCaNT,post:16,topic:37584"”] “we” aren’t stealing, Haliburton is “helping” them to refine it so they can make their money selling it to Exxon and give the rest of Europe and the Western world a few cents off a gallon. You really gotta feel for the Europeans, they are paying what equates to almost $5 per liter for gasoline. [/quote] BUt they also get all the dope ass cars that we can’t get over here… like the bmw 335D… the a4 tdi ect ect… okay…maybe it still sucks for them. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/2-400-000-000-000/37584.md?page=2)