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Saturday, November 11, 2006
The Cost of War
What's the cost of war? Obviously there's so many ways to measure it in terms of the devastation it wreaks on untold numbers of lives. But, let's be more crass here: show me the money. The National Priorities Project shows its version of the Cost of War:
Go check out the Cost of War site. It has a counter of the Cost of War, and it's now up to $341,392,190,394.
Currently, the War in Iraq has cost $341,390,328,877.Obviously there's moral, theological and other important issues involved here. But seriously, those numbers are appalling. The site above also has a way to see the impact of the war on local communities in terms of pure $. For instance, the war has cost Fargo, ND (population: 90,672) $59,636,965. This is ridiculous, even from a purely economic point of view.
Instead, we could have hired 5,916,339 additional public school teachers for one year.
Instead, we could have provided 16,549,869 students four-year scholarships at public universities.
Go check out the Cost of War site. It has a counter of the Cost of War, and it's now up to $341,392,190,394.
national priorities indeed.
oh america, what you sow you will reap.
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