The $3 Trillion War

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The $3 Trillion War

Politics – How else might it been spent? After wildly lowballing the cost of the Iraq conflict at a mere $50 to $60 billion, the Bush administration has been concealing the full economic toll. The spending on military operations is merely the tip of a vast fiscal iceberg.


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walden3
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Just for fun I ran some numbers.

For the $3,000,000,000,000 that we will have spent on Iraq we could have purchased:

60,000 schools that cost $50,000,000 each, or

15,000 hospital that cost $200,000,000 each, or

paid the tuition for 30,000,000 kids at the cost of $100,000 , or

built 150,000 new bridges that cost $20,000,000 each, or

built 60,000,000 new miles of highway that cost $50,000 each, or

hired 37,500,000 teachers and pay them $80,000 a year, or

hire 30,000,000 cops that get paid $100,000 a year, or

built 15,000,000 new homes that cost $200,000 each, or

paid for 12,000,000 organ transplants that cost $250,000 each, or

get 272 BILLION orders of Moo Goo Gai Pan, or

bought every man, woman and child on the planet a 4Gig I-Pod and still have enough money left over to fill em all with music from the I-Tunes store.

Phew.

In the end I guess it all about priorities, huh?

http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/02/28/the-3-trillion-war/

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How will this country ever recover from these nut jobs running/ruining this country? Our children's grand kids will be in debt up to their ears.

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1. Tsk tsk.

Doing all that (and more) would lay an enormous claim on Congress' time. It way easier to fight just one war, instead of builing a ridiculous 15,000 hospitals! Are you nuts!!??

(might any money get leftover, we'll take it, but only in euros)

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2. just think if we had the popular vote rule

like britain if we had the no confidence vote junior would have been on the unemployment
roles 4 years ago.
can we get congress to pass this bill in case McCain gets in?