How long can we stay in Iraq and Afghanistan before the conflicts become a serious drain on the economy?

Question

We have already spent over 300 billion in Iraq alone. That is billion with a B. How long can this continue without increasing revenue?

Answer 1

William s is sittin home smokin to much weed.we are in debt to china.how much more broke can we be?yes bombs that kill cost a lot.sad thing also,returning troops cant get to va hospitals,Bush cut va funding.we are so broke we cant pay attention.

Answer 2

As long as we can let Sen. Clinton supply for $37 billion dollar opera houses in her district (pork), give away billions in foreign aid to rotten little countries that only vote against us in the UN, (or big countries, like Russia and China), forgive billions in foreign debts, and pay for ex-Presidents to travel the world and country helping their wife collect campaign contributions and position herself for 2008, I think we have enough to cover rebuilding those countries. Besides, all these nutjobs are saying how the USA is "stealing Iraq's oil". Of course the people in Iraq are seeing more of this money now than under Iraq or Annan's "food for oil" scam that was supplying Iraq with French of Russian weapons while people went hungry. What we need to do is top all foreign aid to nations that vote against us,( if we can't be in Afghanistan/Iraq because of "civil war" WTF is this nonsense of going into Darfur? Who will pay for that? the UN still owes us for intervention in Haiti, Bosnia and Mogadishu). We need to stop all pork barrel. We need better accounting of money handed out in cases of disasters like Katrina, and make Nagin refund the USA all the kickbacks they get from contractors and landfill operators, and sue contractors that did faulty work with federal monies (like the pilings used in levees that were only half the required length). And make sure oil companies pay the royalties they owe for drilling on national oil reserves or CONFISCATE the rigs and nationalize the wells. The same as they should confiscate the business employing or housing leased to illegal aliens (they can confiscate your gun, your home, your car, etc. if involved in a crime, so why not?), the resale of which would provide money. We need term limits for all national and state political offices, and not allow them to raise their own pay, in fact it should be performanced based so when the economy turns downward, they make less too. And they can supply their own vehicles and own insurance and medical plan, and do their own taxes instead of the people of the country having to! We had our first budget "surplus" in 1998, and the reaction of government (both parties) was to SPEND MORE. Nothing will change if teh people of the country don't make noise, the democrats have two years, if they don't try real reforms, vote the other way in 2008, and keep voting out incumbants at every election until they get the message.

Answer 3

how long? usa just print billion and billion of banknote even economists terrified from hthese amount of printed Dollars
the war in Iraq and Afghanstan cost USA just ink and paper this is the fact man
USA economy will stopped when the world did not accept to deal with USA currency
and this is impposible to acheive at these times

Answer 4

This war has already drained our economy, not that it was in good shape before, I mean since Bush and his republican house and senate have dominated it the last eight years...In fact the last days of the Senate this year they had to vote on a bill that would allow the government to continue to work, meaning pulling money from somewhere to pay them......Our deficit is outrageous, and our budget is not balanced, which it was when Clinton was in office. We need real reformmmmm........Good question...Stay curious and keep up with what your government is doing...and above all vote...............................

Answer 5

2001

Answer 6

When your economy is backed by nothing but the confidence of the consumers, we could fight this war a long time. The question is will we? Do we have the will to stay in this fight until victory is achieved?

Answer 7

US withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq are the only choice in order to cut down on expenses.

Answer 8

Spent....you have borrowed the money....its called a national debt and one day someone has to pay for it.....they are called taxpayers but its ok,you make lots of money don't you,I don't mind paying more in taxes.........why should you

Answer 9

If you are referring to "we" as the U.S., we have already seriously drained our economy. "We" began draining our economy when "we" became entrenched in WWI, WWII, the Korean Conflict, the Cold War, the Vietnam debacle. "We" stretched ourselves even more in Afghanistan, Egypt, Israel, and every other country "we" have determined it is our "manifest destiny" to protect.

"We" need to concentrate on protecting America, or "we" may soon come to realize there is no "America" to protect.

Answer 10

Your question is about 5 years too late.