| 2004 - 2005 figures | Military personnel | Cost per MP | ||||||||
| $420,700,000,000 | 1,400,000 | $300,500 | DOD Budget | |||||||
| $82,000,000,000 | War Supplemental http://www.slate.com/id/2113575/#ContinueArticle | |||||||||
| 60,323,108 | Veterans Budget - 2004 | |||||||||
| 10,600,000,000 | already approved | Rebuild Iraqi forces NYT 11-29-05 | ||||||||
| 3,900,000,000 | requested next year | |||||||||
| 12,500,000,000 | 7 new Army brigades op/maintainSFChron7-14-05RandStudy | |||||||||
| 100,000,000,000 | Interest on NatlDebt - CDI low military est Defense Monitor | |||||||||
| 22,612,500,000 | Homeless vets 275,000 - 500,000*$67K | 337,500 | ||||||||
| 19,000,000 | DeptLabor Reintegrating budget for Vets 2004 | |||||||||
| $6,399,508 | Lost revs/taxwriteoff Blackwater mercenaries 30%bracket | |||||||||
| $1,000,000 | Other mercenary suppliers tax write off-estimate | |||||||||
| $652,399,222,616 | $465,999 | |||||||||
| Often overlloked guess-estimated war/military costs | ||||||||||
| 5,000,000,000 | Lost productivity from lost guardsmens' productivity | |||||||||
| 10,000,000,000 | Lost R&D,infrastructure investment | |||||||||
| 10,000,000,000 | Lost education investments | |||||||||
| 10,000,000,000 | Lost productivity from lost business investment | |||||||||
| $687,399,222,616 | $490,999 | |||||||||
| How measure loss of 30% seriousily injured soldiers | ||||||||||
| Over 15,500 have been seriously injured and it is estimated that over 50,000 will suffer | ||||||||||
| from battle fatigue.There have been reports of at least 30,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. | ||||||||||
| Murtha 11-05 | http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/pa12_murtha/pr051117iraq.html | |||||||||
| Notes | Vets mid # | |||||||||
| Homeless vets 275,000 - sometimes 500,000*$67K | 337,500 | $67,000 | $22,612,500,000 | |||||||
| DeptLabor Reintegrating budget for Vets 2004 | 225 | |||||||||
| Lost revs/taxwriteoff Blackwater mercenaries 30%bracket | 112.5 | |||||||||
| Other mercenary suppliers tax write off-estimate | 337.5 | |||||||||
| $21,331,693 | ||||||||||
| $6,399,508 | BlackwaterSecurity Iraq mercenaries $21.3m 2004 estTaxWriteoff - 30% | |||||||||
| 30% | Lost revs/taxwriteoff Blackwater mercenaries 30%bracket | |||||||||
| DODhttp://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro | ||||||||||
| Rand Study SFC 7-14-05 army needs seven more heavy brigades | ||||||||||
| Number of | Start up costs | Per soldier cost | ||||||||
| new soldiers | of at least | Start up | ||||||||
| 26,000 | 10,000,000,000 | $384,615 | ||||||||
| mid number | ||||||||||
| Operating seven | would cost | Per soldier | ||||||||
| Extra brigades | Extra | Additional cost | ||||||||
| 26000 | 2,500,000,000 | $96,154 | ||||||||
| 12,500,000,000 | Per soldier | |||||||||
| Combined cost | ||||||||||
| $480,769 | ||||||||||
| Economic Developmen aid | ||||||||||
| 9,000,000,000 | Bush acknowledges counters terrorism | |||||||||