Cost of War
By DavidFisher. Filed in Uncategorized |Tags: Bush, cost of war, iraq, scholarships, stupid programmers, teachers, thinkofthechildren, us, war, war on terror
Look to your right. Ok, not that far to the right. There should be a little bar on the side of this page that has the cost of the war in Iraq currently. Like the Gmail inbox size counter, it keeps going up. However, the size of your inbox approaching 3gb isn’t a bad thing. The cost of the war in Iraq costing nearly 500 billion dollars is a bad thing.
Go here to put it in scope. You can choose your community and see how much of the war has been funded by your town. The city of Boston alone is approaching a billion dollars (which doesn’t include neighboring cities or the “greater boston area”).
You can also compare to see what we could have done with that money instead. We could have built over 4 million new public housing units. There’s less than a million homeless in the US. At the same time, we could have had nearly zero.
We could have hired over 7 million public school teachers. We only have 6.2 million teachers in the US! And yes, we do need more.
We could have paid for health insurance for nearly 300 million children. Newsflash. We barely have 300 million people in the US! In short, we could have made sure everyone was insured.
We could have paid for 21 million full scholarships for students at public 4 year universities. While I didn’t go to a public university, I could sure have used some more government assistance so that maybe I wouldn’t have over $120,000 in student loans (which cause me to pay more in student loans that most people in the US pay for their mortgage).