There is a running calculator at
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/...
which spins by at a dizzying rate to show the costs of war in real terms to American families.
The Republicans not only stifled any discussion of Bush-Cheney's stimulus/bailout package to the Halliburtons, Blackwaters, etc, but they did not exercise any oversight while football-sized packages of US taxpayer dollars were tossed around private contractors' offices for sport.
Their belated howls of outrage over "government spending" ring as hollow as their diaper-wearing senators portraying themselves as "values" candidates.