One Little Question
What do you think the princely sum of $456 billion could buy?
The National Priorities Project is an organization that tracks public spending in the U.S. Their website is headlined with the phrase, "Turning Data Into Action", and they state their mission as analyzing and clarifying data "so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent." Visit their site to see the counter tracking the cost of the war in Iraq. Their best estimate is that by September 2007, the war will have cost $456 billion. Their site will also give you equivalents in terms of putting the money to much better use. The war cost counter keeps mounting and so do the equivalencies. While I was there this morning, the number of pre-school kids who could have had a year of the head-start program was 56 million and mounting. The NPP also gives the equivalent to the cost of killing people in terms of kids' health, college scholarships, public housing and public education. The site really provides some food for thought.
If you live in the great U.S. of A. you might be interested in clicking on your state to see their list of cities, towns and counties for which they have calculated the cost of the war in Iraq. Once you've done that, you may well want to avail yourself of their tips on how to make your voice heard and perhaps help to affect federal budget priorities.
What would you like to see them do with that $456 billion?
The National Priorities Project is an organization that tracks public spending in the U.S. Their website is headlined with the phrase, "Turning Data Into Action", and they state their mission as analyzing and clarifying data "so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent." Visit their site to see the counter tracking the cost of the war in Iraq. Their best estimate is that by September 2007, the war will have cost $456 billion. Their site will also give you equivalents in terms of putting the money to much better use. The war cost counter keeps mounting and so do the equivalencies. While I was there this morning, the number of pre-school kids who could have had a year of the head-start program was 56 million and mounting. The NPP also gives the equivalent to the cost of killing people in terms of kids' health, college scholarships, public housing and public education. The site really provides some food for thought.
If you live in the great U.S. of A. you might be interested in clicking on your state to see their list of cities, towns and counties for which they have calculated the cost of the war in Iraq. Once you've done that, you may well want to avail yourself of their tips on how to make your voice heard and perhaps help to affect federal budget priorities.
What would you like to see them do with that $456 billion?
1 Comments:
Quite the statement that makes on the state of the US, which professes to be representative of the free world. $456b is quite the potential to be turning to destruction.
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