Where should we spend our money? It looks as though we choose ISIS. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments estimates annual costs to bomb ISIS could be as high as $6.8 billion. That's without boots on the ground, which could add another $22 billion a year if we had 5,000 troops there.
Obama has allocated $1 billion to fight Ebola, much of which will go to the 3,200 US military personnel to build Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Liberia in an effort to contain the spread of the disease, meaning these troops will be exposed to the virus in the process. But,since 2010, we have cut budgets for the CDC and NIH by $1 billion.
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