The Cost of “Staying the Course”

[proud2BlibKansan]

By: Nicole Belle on Sunday, August 27th, 2006 at 4:16 PM - PDT
The National Priorities Project has a real eye-opening website that calculates the cost of the War in Iraq and them compares it to what we could do with that money.

As a resident of California, here’s what they say we could be doing:

Taxpayers in California will pay $40.3 billion for the cost of war in Iraq. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

16,733,296 People with Health Care or
627,551 Elementary School Teachers or
4,767,634 Head Start Places for Children or
25,168,314 Children with Health Care or
235,246 Affordable Housing Units or
4,390 New Elementary Schools or
7,685,109 Scholarships for University Students or
616,017 Music and Arts Teachers or
741,482 Public Safety Officers or
117,140,845 Homes with Renewable Electricity or
601,790 Port Container Inspectors

Go check out what the trade-offs are for your state.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/27/the-cost-of-staying-the-course/

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1. And 600,000 veterans plus troops last year being put on waiting list

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