Re: Brin: Claw
Bruce Bostwick <[email protected]>
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Are the costs of those "last 206 years" items adjusted for variations in the value of the dollar over that time? ($1M bought a lot more back when we were buying Louisiana than it did when we were paying for Apollo missions..) [Also, concurring with David that WWII doesn't seem to be in there. One estimate I saw was around $288B to $341B in 1945 USD. One estimate of current value of that would be about $2.09T in 1990 USD, probably more now. Probably ballpark numbers given the spread of the cost over 4 years of US involvement in WWII and fluctuations in dollar values over that time (not to mention some of the financial craziness that went on during the mobilization where procurement amounted to "however much of X you can make for however much you bid on it and we need it YESTERDAY, there's a war on, dont'cha know", so a lot of the smaller manufacturing/procurement is hard to put a firm dollar value on).] On Aug 26, 2010, at 6:00 PM, KZK wrote: > This "Graph" puts the 23Trillion in Perspective: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/79361163@N00/4868316187/ > > Obama's Kleptocratic Banksters aren't really very different from > Bush's. "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." -- H. L. Mencken