Well, here's how your tax dollars are being spent! And this does not include the $3 billion being handed out to Pakistan every year
(For sheltering
the likes of Osama - EKIA, Mullah Omar, Haqqani, Zahwari and other terror honchos who have killed more than 1500 American and ISAF soldiers and
wounded many more). The irony is that Americans are paying Pakistan for getting their own soldiers killed!
Taxpayers in The United States will pay
$107.3 billion for the Proposed Afghanistan war spending for FY2011/12 !!!
Now, for the same amount of money, the following could be provided:
55.0 million Children Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
1.6 million Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
1.9 million Firefighters for One Year OR
14.1 million Head Start Slots for Children for One Year OR
24.3 million Households with Renewable Electricity - Solar Photovoltaic for One Year OR
64.8 million Households with Renewable Electricity-Wind Power for One Year OR
13.8 million Military Veterans Receiving VA Medical Care for One Year OR
22.1 million People Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
1.6 million Police or Sheriff's Patrol Officers for One Year OR
13.6 million Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
19.3 million Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550.
But then, the PTB need war because of lucrative contracts by the big corporations. Here are some details of the big guns’ yearly contracts who are
raking in the billions in Afghanistan:
Contractor.....................................................
Value
Kellogg, Brown & Root (Halliburton).............$11,431,000,000
Parsons Corp...........................................$5,286,136,252
Fluor Corp...............................................$3,754,964,295
Washington Group International..................$3,133,078,193
Shaw Group/Shaw E & I............................$3,050,749,910
Bechtel Group Inc.....................................$2,829,833,859
Perini Corporation.....................................$2,525,000,000
Contrack International Inc..........................$2,325,000,000
Tetra Tech Inc.........................................$1,541,947,671
USA Environmental Inc..............................$1,541,947,671
CH2M Hill.................................................$1,528,500,000
American International Contractors, Inc........$1,500,000,000
Odebrect-Austin.......................................$1,500,000,000
Zapata Engineering....................................$1,478,838,958
Environmental Chemical Corporation..............$1,475,000,000
Explosive Ordnance Technologies Inc............$1,475,000,000
Stanley Baker Hill L.L.C...............................$1,200,000,000
And that's not all! There are hundreds more smaller contractors who have a hand in the pie!
So who wants war? No prizes for guessing! After Afganistan, who's next?
costofwar.com...
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edit on 12-5-2011 by OrionHunterX because: (no reason given)
edit on 12-5-2011 by OrionHunterX because: (no reason
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