Posted by Dave on 05/04/08 at 08:55:47 am
Categories: Foreign Affairs

How would you spend three trillion dollars: $3 Trillion Shopping Spree [hat tip Young Anabaptist Radicals]

Why $3 Trillion? Because that is the estimated amount that this war in Iraq will cost.

Some things I learned yesterday about one day in Iraq:

• It costs 720 million dollars
• Which could buy any one of the following:
  • 84 new elementary schools
  • 12,478 elementary school teachers
  • 95,364 Head Start places for children
  • 1,153,846 children with free school lunches
  • 34,904 four-year scholarships for university students
  • 163,525 people with healthcare
  • 423,529 children with healthcare
  • 6,482 families with homes
  • 1,274,336 homes with renewable electricity

When will it end?

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