Cost of Wars to NY25

THE 25TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK:

Total Cost of Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Since 2001

$3.626 BILLION (as of this hour),

an average of over $329 MILLION a year,
or $909,113 a day,
or $37,630 an hour
in NY25
~
also, $503.75 from every person in NY25 per year
in taxes, or indebtedness (primarily to China)

President and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his speech on the Military-Industrial Complex at the close of his Presidency in 1961:

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.

Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.

...

To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration:

We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.