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The Iraq War: Totally the Best Way to Spend $3,734 A Second

Posted on July 10th, 2007 by DJK

What does that mean? In the time it took you to read the headline, the Iraq war drained away about $16,798. Listening to "Stairway to Heaven" costs taxpayers $1,796,054. Because according to a new report by Congressional Research Services, saying the Iraq war costs $8 billion a month is so last year:

For FY2007, obligations are about $10 billion in Iraq, $1.9 billion in Afghanistan, and less than $100 million for enhanced security.

That brings the monthly pricetag for the GWOT to $12 billion a month, a 41% increase over last year's bargain basement price of $8.7 billion a month. We must be defeating a lot of terror!

But staying on Iraq, can you imagine what the US could do with $10 billion/month? How would you spend $323 million a day, $13.4 million an hour, $224,014 a minute, or $3,734 dollars every single second? What would New Orleans be like if that kind of money was being spent there? How much health care is that? What kind of schools does that buy? It's amazing to me that a country will accept going into debt to kill people but won't go into debt to help or educate people, even their own kids.

Antonio

Hey Guys
i just want to tell you that all the people always ask WHY? the reason is very simple, USA is full of low educated people, and the ones with good education and oportunities, have the money to just dont care about. Middle class are going to be like pandas in 20 years, and the ones who "care about", are too lazy to do something real strong to make them hear....so what we reaaaaaally need is a big rock coming really quick, the only problem is that halliburton is going to rebuild the planet...and here we go again.

Chrissylove

One thing at least has been clearly proven to me from reading all these postings: we should have put more of that military money into education (as suggested in a "what if" by an earlier poster). The grammar on the average post is atrocious. These issues are difficult enough to intelligently debate without communication skills getting in the way. Ironic that this point has been inadvertently proven by people on both sides of the fence...

Saavik

ATTN: Alexander

Regarding your earlier post, "Sources please? This is total, total news to me. ALL my life I have been taught that the government is always operating with a negative balance. You must have not included the national debt," according to the Congressional Budget Office, under the Clinton administration, the United States had a projected federal budget surplus for the first time since 1969. Here's a link so you can see for yourself:

http://www.cbo.gov/budget/historical.pdf

sctee2005

It is almost fatalistic, the way that good money is disappearing into nothingness, while our next generation watches opportunity dwindle away.

Joseph Raglione

"how is it that millions are not in the streets screaming, crying, demanding the impeachment AND TRIAL FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES of both Bush and Cheney. Why is there no cry for the impeachment of Atty. Gen. Gonzales? Why? Why? Why?
Again I hear only silence..."
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HEY! IS THIS LOUD ENOUGH FOR YOU?
Your President Bush has full economic control of the most dangerous military on Earth and he is not afraid to use it for his own purposes. Standing up to the Man and his filthy rich corporate friends is dangerous to say the least. Also, a great many hypocritical new car owners are keeping extreemly silent on the whole issue.

razkeys

I suggest we listen to Mr. Kucinich's 12 point plan. I'm no politician or brainiac but it sure makes sense to me. He won't get elected because he makes too much sense. Americans can't get the point that we can make it happen if we try. Peace/environment etc

http://kucinich.us/

Bernie P

So often I see "right thinking" people comment on these sites -- people who appear to be informed regarding the ineptitude, illegitimacy and outright criminality of this administration. So, given the thousands of people in the streets regarding the "illegal alien" issue -- how is it that millions are not in the streets screaming, crying, demanding the impeachment AND TRIAL FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMES of both Bush and Cheney. Why is there no cry for the impeachment of Atty. Gen. Gonzales? Why? Why? Why?
Again I hear only silence...

Scott

It is simply amazing how dumb middle class american white folks are. LBJ gave you privatized military morons who must have war for profit. Which means war is now a business and we must have a war of the moment for whatever dumb reason. "Tricky Dick" Nixon took away health care and called it HMO - (Human Massacre Only). Reagan gave you a tax cut and took away all your tax deductions. In case you idiots don't know it, that amounted to one heck of a tax increase. Then to add insult you idiots injury he took consumer items out of the inflation index so corporations and government could claim 2% inflation and give raises based on that figure while the things that a normal person buys like groceries, lights, heat, etc., was increasing at 10% per year which eliminated the lower middle class - the bulk of the people who voted for him into the ranks of the poverty stricken. George H.W. Bush said,"Read my lips, no new taxes," and what happened? He raised taxes and sent us off to war for the profiteers. Clinton brought us NAFTA or whatever it was that sent our jobs overseas. Now George W. Bush brings us the ultimate moneymaking war for rich people. And what are these dumb news commentators getting out of championing such idiotic lunacy? A small paycheck for their ignorance as their families and friends fall from the ranks of the middle class into poverty as they point their fingers in all directions except the right one. The audacity of saying that the world's most celebrated scientists are wrong on such an important issue as global warming. What kind of idiot would say that it is best to spend money on a misguided war rather than New Orleans. I guess the middle class dummies in New Orleans got a rude awakening about how much the rest of the American public cares about them. Let a storm hit New York or another center of the ignorant media "experts" and we'll see how quickly the tune changes to a cry of outrage. Ignorance is appalling and "the chickens will come home to roost."

weev

Sorry, are the terrorists in Iraq? I just thought the oil was.

No terrorist yet has been an Iraqi national. The Iraqi are not coming to kill you, though would could understand if they were, after you attack them.

I am a peaceful person but if you came over to my place and blew up my family I'd be pissed.

Amanda

Aside from the obscened amount of money being spent on the war on terror, I have to consider, sadly, that in the remaining 18 months or so left in Dubya's reign, we can expect to see somewhere between one and two thousand more American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afganistan. Also understand that a whole lot of that war-on-terror money is being dumped in the pockets of American companies and contractors. There are a LOT of folks all around us who are getting rich from this wasteful slaughter. There are a lot of folks getting rich off generating heat and pollution also. Oil production is over 100 million barrels a day and coal is consumed at over a billion tons a year, in the US alone. Are we supposed to be gullible to think that might possibly affect the environment. I sure seems plausable to me.