Why does the 25 trillion deficit not include the expenses incurred from Iraq?

Answer 1

When you include everything, all our debt, the number is over 50 trillion. " A billion here and a billion there, soon you are talking about real money." It is all a colossal shell game perpetrated on the public. Social Security was supposed to be a fund that contributions went in to, and benefits were to be taken from the interest. If left alone, there would be more than enough money now to draw from. Instead, Congress adopted another criminal practice and started, in the sixties, dumping that money in the general fund to be spent every year on their pet projects, like Vietnam. Today is the same with Iraq. I imagine they call it creative bookkeeping 101.

Answer 2

becuase excluding war expenses makes it seem like the debt--and by extension the economy-- is better than it actually is. this has been bush administration policy from day 1 of the war and i guess the nation's economists just went along with it.
i have heard that the war is costing as much as $1 billion a week. so you can add that to the deficit whenever you hear it quoted. and i have also heard that the deficit is more in the $5-$7 trillion range.

Answer 3

There is no 25 trillion dollar defecit. More like 8 trill.

Answer 4

Because you are confusing the National debt and the Budget deficit. The budget is yearly, and the National debt is continious.