If the money spent on Iraq war was instead given away to every man woman and child

[srican69]

we would all get $19000 each ...

a family of four would get $76,000.

Here is the math

cost = 6 trillion
Source http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314

population = 315.5 million
source http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

[hedgehog]

1. Or, we could have paid each Iraqi $240,000!

Maybe we should do some pre-emptive calculations re North Korea!

[leveymg]

2. Look at it this way: that's $19,000 you gave to lobbyists for Haliburton and Lockheed Martin

Or, money they owe you.

You paid it forward, either way. They owe it with interest.

[Faux pas]

3. I thought the same thing about the bank bailout.

If they gave a billion dollars to each american citizen, they would have had about 4 billion left over to piss away on something stoopid.

[freshwest]

5. Yes, if they'd given such amounts to everyone, social services would be 'meh' stories.

We'd all be libertarians then, huh?

It's not likely, as libertarian sociopaths believe they should have it all.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Half a glass of water...

"The glass is half empty" = Republican

"The glass half full" = Democrat

An Authoritarian is who the Libertarian turns to in order to find out what happened to his water.

[Lucky Luciano]

14. Bank bailout was not 3.15 X 10^17. nt

[formercia]

4. The US could have bought Iraq for Cash 10 times over

and paid in full retirement for the Iraqi Army.

[Rex]

6. Criminals got that money, they put it in offshore bank accounts

and laugh at the working poor for their 'sacrifice'. Daily.

The GOP is a domestic terrorist organization and nothing more.

[srican69]

7. untold billions just vanished without trace ...this is apart from the no-bid contracts handed out to

Halliburton ...

How the FUCK did they manage to shove that down our throats????

[srican69]

8. I wish someone just investigates the No -bid contracts ... and get some answers for us

make the fucker Dick Cheney come and testify .. make him answer questions over conflicts of interests vis-a-vis Halliburton ..

[Botany]

15. most portfolios have 3,281 % returns

[AndyA]

9. But wouldn't that be a waste of good money?

Corporations do so much more with it...

[union_maid]

10. Can you imagine if they'd spent it on infrastructure

The jobs and nice roads, bridges and economy we could have had?

[Scootaloo]

11. But then we wouldn't have wiped Iraq off the map

PRIORITIES!

[union_maid]

13. Always something that we need to decimate

That's why we can't have nice things.

[Dawson Leery]

12. But that would deny the war contractors their fortunes.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Lesson learned: It's cheaper to buy oil than it is to steal it.

[duhneece]

18. I can make myself crazy, thinking how much better if we'd spent it on drug rehab

If substance abuse treatment options, from residential to intensive outpatient were available to anyone who wanted to get 'clean & sober' on demand...or if our labs got extra $$ for training & lab work to increase sexual assault convictions...to just education for everyone. Then, it's back to reality.