Rep. John Conyers: A Trillion Dollar Turning Point?

Here’s a new post from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

As of 10:06 a.m., Sunday, May 30th, the United States will have spent $1 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we approach this milestone, Americans of all political stripes should take a moment to consider what war spending on this scale means, not just in dollars spent, but in terms of opportunities lost to strengthen, invest in, and improve our country. While each of us intrinsically knows that wars have consequences, we are rarely presented with such a stark example of how the choice to pursue war at the expense of priorities at home impacts each of us

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Rep. John Conyers: A Trillion Dollar Turning Point?

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