Just like Harry Reid did last year, but will she pay for her comments if they don't come true? Probably not.
She later went onto to say the war will have cost the american people $1 trillion. Which is probably true, but I think we need to put things into perspective. The 2007 Military budget was $439.3 billion and in 2008 it was about $548 billion and of that, $152.2 went to Operations and Maintenance in 2007. That means, roughly $300 billion would go to the military whether we were in a war or not, much less, two fronts. So $150 billion x 6.66 years is ummm.... yeah, $1 trillion.
Now take medicare, medicaid, social security and welfare (there are a lot more programs than that, but you get my point) add them together and multiply them by 6.66 years.
That is $275 billion + $395 billion + $585 billion + $294 billion x 6.66 years = $10,316,340,000,000.00. Add that amount to whatever programs Hillary has cooked up for us and you will see that $1 tillion is a lot smaller than one would otherwise think.
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