Dwight Eisenhower: 'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron'.
In a congressional hearing, appearing alongside US defence secretary Pete Hegseth, Jules Hurst, under secretary of war and chief financial officer, said the total cost of the Iran War is currently $29bn. So Google states that:
Average cost of elementary and middle school construction - $25-$30m
Average cost of electric power plant in USA -$2 billion
Average cost of fully equipped hospital in USA - $200m
Average cost of concrete poavement in USA - $352 per mile
Average cost of a bushel of Wheat in USA - $6
Average cost of building a new home in USA - $450,000
So to put it another way, the Iran War so far has cost Americans 1,160 new schools, 14 electric power plants, 145 new fully equipped hospitals, 89,230,769 miles of concrete pavement, 4,833,333,333 bushels of wheat or 64,444 new homes and from what I can see, all you have to show for missing out on all this is...paying more for your petrol.
Tuesday, 12 May 2026
The Financial Cost Of War
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many, i for one plus the your vaunted un iaea, noted that iran was with in 3 weeks of having the material to build several nuclear bombs.
the threat isn't them launching a rocket armed with a nuclear bomb. the threat is them loading a bomb on a ship that makes its way into NY harbor, or philadephia, or miami, or LA, or seattle, or san francisco.
what is happening to them would be over tomorrow if they ceded their desire to have nuclear weapons. there leaders do not care about the populace. perhaps you could transfer your energy to revealing the evil of the iranian leaders and how they have repressed women for the last 70 years, while funding terrorists to attack Israel.
the problems in the US are not a lack of money spent on welfare, education, health care. we've spend trillions on those things each year and the answer is not simply spending more on those things. the more we have spent since circa 1965, the worse all the issues have gotten.
socialism does far more harm than good.
why leftists cannot see this is baffling. how many industrialized nations that are spending a huge and growing part of their budget on welfare, education, health care have fewer problems today than 50 years ago?
they can't be better anywhere because you leftists keep telling us everything is worse. everything. so much for spending trillions on welfare.
The same IAEA that said that there is no verified evidence of a structured, current, and active Iranian program to produce a nuclear explosive device. That IAEA? Believing Fox News propaganda let you down yet again.
Nice shoehorning in of Socialism in a post which had nothing to do with it. Quentin Smith’s law strikes again.
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