Posts Tagged ‘cost of wars’

Tanks for the Memories


Friday February 7th, 2014   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 5:30am PST   •   2 Comments

As we noted last year, the U.S. military has more than enough tanks and Army chiefs of staff such as Ray Odierno protest that they don’t want any more. Politicians, on the other hand, wanted the Army to have 280 more tanks, at $8 million a pop. It turns out that there is more…
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Federal Government Still Spending for Civil War, Spanish-American War


Friday March 22nd, 2013   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 3:04pm PDT   •   18 Comments

The federal government won’t say who they are, but in 2013 two people still get government payments for the U.S. Civil War, which ended nearly 150 years ago. No government official made that information public. It only emerged as the result of an investigation of federal payment records by the Associated Press, which also…
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