Sunday, April 5, 2009

Do not forget, This is not done...

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Taxpayers in Harrisonburg, Virginia will pay $65.2 million for total Iraq war spending approved to date. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
18,252 People with Health Care for One Year OR
53,803 Homes with Renewable Electricity for One Year OR
1,392 Public Safety Officers for One year OR
986 Music and Arts Teachers for One Year OR
8,113 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
425 Affordable Housing Units OR
32,855 Children with Health Care for One Year OR
9,091 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR
949 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
1,030 Port Container Inspectors for One year


Taxpayers in the United States will pay $656.1 billion for total Iraq war spending approved to date. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

193,370,980 People with Health Care for One Year OR
679,232,570 Homes with Renewable Electricity for One Year OR
14,170,626 Public Safety Officers for One year OR
11,251,447 Music and Arts Teachers for One Year OR
101,437,848 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
5,103,740 Affordable Housing Units OR
289,177,337 Children with Health Care for One Year OR
90,037,052 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR
10,777,823 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
9,479,502 Port Container Inspectors for One year

And now, think of the cost to all of the people involved, in terms of effect on their lives...

5 comments:

Ole Roscoe said...

Let's pray, on this Palm Sunday, that this country will never again sink to the Hellish depths that we did under Bush and the Republicans!

David Briggman said...

While those are nice numbers, I don't believe that under the Constitution, any of those alternatives are to be provided by government.

Anonymous said...

Please...we know much of that would be funneled to ACORN to perpetuate voter fraud and Planned Parenthood to murder more babies.

the REAL anonymous said...

First, the comment by anonymous is ignorant, but we all know that...

Second, no Briggman, those numbers are not "nice" and your rebuttable is as dumb as anonymous's. Nothing in the post mentions that the government should pay for those things...you damn fascist.

Lastly, I hope America remembers that this is what you get when the Supreme Court selects an ignoramus who makes decisions based upon "God speaking to him" and a pre-conceived plan to invade Irag because Daddy screwed up the first time.

John Doe said...

REAL anonymous, you f'ng moron. Democrat legislators voted for the war. Now, a Democrat President is perpetuating it. The world is safer without Saddam. Or, it was, until this namby pamby punk community organizer got elected. Now, all the world's bad guys feel that again they can get away with any damn thing they want because we have a pansy in the White House who won't oppose them.