From today’s news reports, “Congress has now approved $507 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan and heightened security at overseas military bases since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to the Congressional Research Service. The war in Iraq has cost $379 billion and the conflict in Afghanistan now totals $97 billion." (source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060929/ap_on_go_co/defense_spending;_ylt=AjJlPNKBWxbrhbY33XBMywes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--)
So what else could that money have been spent on?
From the source listed below, we could have:
> paid for
43,744,313
children to attend a year of Head Start
> insured
197,766,223
children for one year.
> hired
5,723,612
additional public school teachers for one year.
> built
2,973,767
additional housing units.
> provided
16,010,746
students four-year scholarships at public universities.
Source:
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
2006-09-29
04:56:26
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