The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.
The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems (ed. Columbia University Press, 2013) - ISBN: 9780231527866