US spending on investigations has decreased significantly, with only $8 million spent on investigating the 2008 financial crisis. In contrast, the government spent $175 million on the Challenger disaster and $15 million on 9/11. The US spends $711 billion on military operations and $17 billion on the “war on drugs.”
The US is spending less and less on investigations. When the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred in 1986, the United States government spent approximately 175 million US dollars (USD) investigating the cause. When terrorists flew planes into New York’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, the government spent an estimated $15 million investigating the disaster. In the financial crisis that began in 2008, only $8 million dollars was spent investigating the problem.
More money spending facts:
The US government spent $711 billion on military operations in 2008 – about the same as the rest of the world’s countries combined.
In 2009, the US government spent a total of $3.5 trillion, $0.4 trillion over budget; projected spending for 2015 is nearly $4.4 trillion.
Through the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the US federal government spends an estimated $17 billion on the “war on drugs.”
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