The war is costing a little bit of money:
CHICAGO, Sept. 21 — The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee, which displayed those statistics on large banners in cities nationwide Thursday and Friday.
The war is costing $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute, according to the group’s analysis of the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes.
Fortunately, the war is making us immensely popular all over the globe…so it is obviously worth it.
If you meet any war supporters in real life, remind them it costs a half a million dollars a minute to fight this war.
There’s so much deadly serious about this war that it almost feels selfish to complain about the cost, but it’s more and more making me crazy to hear about all the things we can’t afford. Like medical care, schools, public transportation, renewable energy. We’re told such things would require tax hikes that would kill business and cut jobs. Yet a useless, murderous war? No problem.
Here in Chicago we’ve been in a public transit crisis for months because of funding problems. The whole problem would be more than fixed for a year, at least, by one minute of the war spending. One day of the war would buy great public transit, and regional rail, nationwide. But according to the “news”, that kind of spending (by tax and spend Democrats) would kill jobs and wreck the economy. But not if the spending goes to Murder Incorporated, I guess.
against this war many times. The other side always shrugs it off. My right leaning brother-in-law says the cost of the war is miniscule compared to the size of the federal budget. Yet he screams like a robbery victim when the school spends a buck and a half to feed a kid lunch.
There is simply no point arguing with closed minds.
If it’s any consolation I would introduce you to the concept of not fully developed souls, you know a kind of spiritual lower species.
And my daughter thinks my mother is wicked, wicked cheap. Here is why.
http://www.elderlawcenter.org/
Half of which likely went to war profiteers.
a bit more than half, if these numbers are to be believed…94% ±
lTMF’sA
I think it’s actually more like 96% that went to the profiteers, based on something dada and ask posted in the news bucket about a week ago.