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$3 Trillion Shopping Spree
Posted by Dave Email 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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