The Cost of the Afghanistan War

In the early 19 nineties, a house in vienna, virginia would have gone for maybe 200 thousand dollars. That same piece of land with a numac mans to day is around one point eight to two million dollars. We spent all this money in afghanistan. Had to pay all these contractors and what not. And i think this is the part that's really unnerving for me, just to see how much money is poured into there. This is what actually connects inner city baltimore and rural nebraska.

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