the Sugar Conspiracy

Friday, September 12, 2003

Shopping around with $87 billion

The $87 billion that President Bush is asking from Congress for the war in Iraq could also pay for a whole buncha other stuff:

$87b Is More Than The Combined Total Of All State Budget Deficits In The United States

$87b Is Rougly The Total Of Two Years Worth Of All U.S. Unemployment Benefits

$87b Is Enough To Pay The 3.3 Million People Who Have Lost Jobs $26,363 Each

$87b Is More Than Double The Total Amount The Government Spends On Homeland Security

$87b Is 7 Times What The Government Spends On Title I For Low-Income Schools

$87b Is 87 Times The Amount The Federal Government Spends On After School Programs

$87b Is More Than 10 Times What The Government Spends On All Environmental Protection

And that's just the headlines . . . the details are at Tom Paine.

posted by chris at 2:15 PM
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