The USA has suffered a loss of $2.8 trillion in GDP that the USA could have but chose not to have: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/the-waste/ http:

The USA has suffered a loss of $2.8 trillion in GDP that the USA could have but chose not to have: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/the-waste/ http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/the-waste/