How much is $3,000,000,000 a week?

[unhappycamper]

/ 7 days = $428,571,428.57 per day

/ 24 hours = $17,857,142.86 per hour

/ 60 minutes = $297,619.05 per minute


That's right - Iraq is costing the United States $297,619.05 per minute. Does anyone see anything wrong with this? Anyone? Bueller?

[hlthe2b]

1. boo kuu many $$$

You might want to add a few "," and delete a couple of "." in your subject line, though...


But, more to the point, Bush* is decimating our economic future. :mad:

[unhappycamper]

3. Thanks - I fixed it.

Must. Have. More. Coffee.

[sendero]

2. Try..

.... s/\./,/g

[unhappycamper]

4. Unfortunately, a regex doesn't work in titles. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

5. We piss away in 2 weeks in Iraq what we spend on cancer research in a year here n/t

[Warpy]

6. It is $1000 a week for every one of us

It would provide every one of us with

Health insurance
Housing
Retirement (if we're older)
Education (if we're young)
The best mass transit system in the world
Vacations
Child Care

These are all the things the military is stealing from us to waste in Iraq.

Think about it. What could you do with $1000/week?

[DFW]

7. Isn't it more like $9 a week for every American?

Not that it gets any more appealing that way.

[frogcycle]

8. in 3.5 months it could pay for this plan...

NOLAPlan

which would provide a solution for centuries to come, (assuming sea levels can be kept within a few feet of where they are)

[lonestarnot]

9. 12 billion a month.

How much will this go up after the requested 50 billion?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. 297,619 Per Minute... Not Second.

[unhappycamper]

11. Fixed it - thanks. n/t

[Aviation Pro]

16. How about $4690 per second....

...or about the salary of the average American household per month.

[rug]

12. That's $100 per week per capita

for every human in the United States.

[Selatius]

13. It's several dozen brand new schools, thousands of grants for students, and several tons of medicine

That's how much three billion can buy in a week.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. <...> Is there no other way the world may live?

-- Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, A speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (1953-04-16).

[MLFerrell]

14. Look on the bright side...

That's only .1 cents a minute per American.

:sarcasm:

[pansypoo53219]

15. you forget how much the price of gas increased

which is also affecting americans. but hey! look at the bright side. unemployment isn't as high as it would be if the soldiers weren't working in iWaq.

heck of a job, georgie.

[Bjorn Against]

17. At my current salary it would take me more than ten years to pay for one minute of the Iraq war

And that is if it did not spend a single penny on anything else. What a waste.