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Thursday, August 14, 2014

7 Astounding Facts About the Insane Cost of War

By Lynn Stuart Parramore
August 11, 2014
Usually August is back-to-school month, when kids pick up their shiny new books and head to class. But this time it looks a bit more like back-to-war. The war profiteers will be hatching new schemes to cash in on misery and you and I will be picking up the tab.
Whoopie! We're all gonna pay...
As the crisis in Iraq unfolds, it’s worth thinking about the tremendous cost of fighting. The loss of life is the most devastating price, but the loss of all the productive things that could have been done with the money — from teaching our children to repairing our infrastructure to giving our seniors a bit of security after a life of hard work — is nothing short of catastrophic.
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Stephanie Doty
Weary of Wonderland
August 14, 2014
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