$87,000,000,000 In Perspective...

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Via Atrios
http://atrios.blogspot.com/

[prolesunited]

1. Thank you for posting this

I was going to this morning and ran out of time. Interesting to note that the tax cuts still outpace this all-important "war on terror."

[Avalux]

2. Lovely

Why is the 87 bil labeled "War on Terror" Proposal? Isn't that money just for Iraq? Oh that's right - we're fighting all the terrorists there now.

[bearfartinthewoods]

4. afghani reconstruction money is included n/t

[Bandit]

3. Remember this $87 billion is in addition to the $79 billion already spent.

You need to revise your chart.

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6. There is an LA Times story today

That admits the $87B is not enough, and that at least $55b more will be required.
As a poster at Atrios said:
"Jeez... we should just give every Iraqi $10,000 and tell them to forget we were ever here."

[Bandit]

8. It was said after the Vietnam Conflict

That we could have bought every single Vietnamese a new home with color TV and saved tons of money. We would have had some friends also instead of enemies.

[Robbien]

5. Here are two other numbers that makes it hard to breathe

Public Debt (numbers taken from today's US Treasury site)

Debt held by the public: $3,979,155,130,778.38

Debt held by intergovernmental agencies $2,833,699,044,964.40

[NNN0LHI]

7. Good post. And if I am not wrong Medicare costs about $4 billion per year

And the Republicans never stop crying about that.

Don

[phiddle]

9. What do you do with an irresponsible teenager?

TAKE AWAY HIS CREDIT CARD!!!!
If * wants $87 billion, he should not be allowed to foist it off on the unborn via an increase in the deficit. He should have to pony up $87,000,000,000 of new revenue to pay for it.

[bloom]

10. thanks

I heard that we're going into debt at the rate of 1 million/minute.

It sickens me. What ARE they thinking?

[never cry wolf]

11. Check out this link

I am garnering quite a nice little collection of links I have picked up ehre in DU.

http://www.costofwar.com/

[Bandit]

12. One million a minute comes to 525,600,000,000.00

Just about what they have told us about. That is not including the military expenditures for war on terror. You could probably double that amount. A million dollars a minute. Think what our hospitals and schools could do with just a small portion of that. That doesn't include the interest on the deficit either.

[TacticalPeek]

14. In about two hours, you take care of AmeriCorps' unmet need for the year.

They are not humans.

[Brian Sweat]

13. "Bush Proposed Tax Custs?"

I'm sorry, is Schleprock proposing another tax cut or does this refer to one of his previous two cuts? I had not heard that he was trying for another round of tax cuts. Is he?

[Wickerman]

18. His feet need to be held to the fire and those cuts need to go

the way of the DoDo. As does Bush.

[Booberdawg]

15. 87 Billion is just what he asked for, not counting 79 Billion already

spent, and not counting the extra 55 Billion they admit they still need. *sigh* And that's not counting years down the line.

OMFG

BTW, where is Osama bin Forgotten? Oh, Iraq didn't have anything to do with that...

[Junkdrawer]

16. Hmmm...Where to cut, where to cut...

Has to be something big enough to make a difference.....

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17. For the afternoon crowd... n/t

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[Unknown Known]

19. Halliburton & Carlyle will get the majority of this money

It's called corporate welfare & war profiteering.