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Timbuk3 Donating Member (727 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-16-06 05:49 PM
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Fun with numbers
United States Revenues (2005 estimate, CIA factbook):
$2,119,000,000,000.00
United States Expenditures (2005 estimate, CIA factbook):
$2,466,000,000,000,00
"Off budget" expenditures for war in Iraq (2007, Army Times):
$112,000,000,000.00

Amount spent in Iraq, so far (from costofwar.com, changes by the second):
$241,398,551,873.69

Bush net worth (estimate, Center for Public Integrity):
$9,000,000.00
Cheney net worth (2001 estimate):
$38,000,000.00

A "six-figure income":
$200,000.00

Number people in United States (CIA factbook):
295,734,134

Cost to each American, regardless of age, of Iraq war (so far, not counting interest or the "cost" to families of the dead):
$816.00

Cost of Iraq war to each American (not counting interest or the "cost" to families of the dead) by year's end:
$1195.00

Percentage of "average American's" (with a 6-figure) income going to Iraq by year's end:
0.6%

Percentage of "average American's" (with a $50,000.00/yr) income going to Iraq by year's end:
2.39%

Percentage of Bush's net worth going to Iraq by year's end:
0
OK, that's probably true, but here's the calculated number:
0.01327%

Percentage of Cheney's net worth going to Iraq by year's end:
0
OK, if it wasn't funny the first time it's probably not funny the second time, so here's the calculated number:
0.003145%

Number of members of Bush/Cheney families lost in war in Iraq/Afghanistan:
0

Total casualties in Iraq (US only, 2/16/06):
2274

Percentage of total casualties suffered by Bush/Cheney families:
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%
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