Cost of the war stretches into the ionosphere -- literally

[quaoar]

It is often difficult to fully grasp just how much money a billion dollars is. It is much easier to understand if you can visualize just how big a stack a billion dollars makes.

So I did some calculating -- based on the GAO's rough estimate of the Iraq War costing up to $1 billion a week.

If you took $1 billion in one dollar bills (each bill is 0.0043 inches thick) and stacked them on top of each other, it would create a stack 67.87 miles high, which would reach into the ionosphere.

Imagine that. Each and every week we spend on this war a stack of money 67.87 miles high.

[mrcheerful]

1. Oh come on now

you expect freepers,chicken hawks and other assorted nuts to believe this war is costing them anything? I mean come on, everyone of them knows for a fact that america makes more on supplying the war effort so therefore the government takes in more then it actually spends. Just ask them and they will tell you that the american economy does better when america is at war. All the job loss's and unemployment numbers are just lies that liberals made up to make the fearless,(as long as he stays in hiding) GW look bad. Liberals are cooking the numbers just so they can scare the average american into cutting and running, just ask Rummysfeild.