[ac29]

$100B isnt really all that much as compared to California's GSP of $2.5T [0]. The US spent, percentage wise, quite a bit more on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: $2.4T [1] out of $18.6T GDP [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

[2] https://bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm

[knowaveragejoe]

GDP isn't the amount of money the government has sitting around to invest, though.