Unnecessary Money

        For this weeks blog post, I came across an article about the Afghan and Iraq wars costing U.S tax payers trillions of dollars. The U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will cost taxpayers four trillion to six trillion dollars due to medical care of wounded veterans and expensive repairs that are needed due to years of fighting. Also military benefits were increased in late 2001 as the nation went to war in an attempt to expand ranks. Linda J. Bilmes, a public policy professor, wrote in the report that was released Thursday. “As a consequence of these wartime spending choices, the United States will face constraints in funding investments in personnel and diplomacy, research and development and new military initiatives,” the report says. “The legacy of decisions taken during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will dominate future federal budgets for decades to come.”
        After reading this it made me wonder if the decisions our government make are the smartest or if they do not think out their thoughts to weigh the pros and cons of what their choices might bring upon the nation as a whole.