What Costs More - Welfare or War?

Question

G.W. just signed $162 Billion for the war in in Iraq & Afghanistan. I'm trying to find out how that compares to U.S. welfare spending. If you know where I could find this information I would appreciate it.

Answer 1

The way our economy is now should answer your question.

Answer 2

Welfare for the poor costs about 1.2 billion annually

Corporate welfare for rich whites cost you over 90 billion annually

The Iraq war costs you about 109 billion annually.

Answer 3

That 162 billion dollar bill has plenty of welfare included in it.

Answer 4

We are not at War in Iraq.  

War is when you fire a bullet, kill the bad guy, and go home.

We are "nation building" in Iraq, we should have learned from Jimmy Carter's failures in South/Central America, that we don't have "nation building" capacity within our Armed Forces.

Answer 5

Welfare and all social welfare programs are only 5% of taxes.  War, army, etc are like half of taxes.