Sunday, June 26, 2005
Trade-Offs
Thanks to the National Priorities Project for maintaining the Iraq Invasion cost clock.0 comments
As of 6/26/05 at 3:30 p.m., EDT, the cost to the American treasury for this rich-guy folly is $179,277,500,000.00. Of course, the numbers flew higher even as I was trying to type it in. It's gone up approximately $250,000 in the last two minutes.
Cost of War
The worst part of this web site is the listing of all the positive, life-affirming things all that money could have purchased for us.
Basically, which would you rather have?
Your son and daughter—along with 8,690,673 of their classmates—getting a full four-year scholarship to the public university of their choice, so that they have access to a better life in these changing economic times, or your neighbor having his boy come home in a body bag?
Would you choose to flood the American educational system with 3,106,801 qualifed new K-12 teachers for your son and daughter—and millions of their classmates—so that they have the smaller classes that help them attain the life you dream for them, or would you rather see your neighbor have a couple of military guys show up and hand her "The Letter"?
See?
It's all just a series of choices.
Your call...
I said, It's your call...
"Hmmmmmm..., I'm thinking, I'm thinking...!"
posted by Gotham 3:48 PM
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