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10 billion a week
I recently heard a US senator quote the cost of the occupation of Iraq at $10 billion per week. I don't for a minute think the Iraqi people are getting $10 billion worth of service each week. I think large companies are getting the goldmine and they are getting the shaft.
It's guns versus butter time. Let's put some things in perspective. For the sake of comparison the numbers below will refer to each 10 billion as one week (2 weeks = 20 billion dollars). All figures are from the whitehouse dot gov site, enacted budget figures for 2007.
Homeland security gets three weeks. I'll let you think about that a minute.
The justice department gets two weeks with which buys a lot of wiretaps if you don't have to hire a lawyer to explain them all.
The veterans get three and a half weeks to support the ever increasing number of injured veterans.
The corp of Engineers gets half a week to work on bridges and levees. I wonder why they are failing.
The judicial and legislative branches together only get one week. No more complaining about legislators' pay, it's a drop in the ocean.
Energy gets two weeks, don't want to give them enough money to research real alternatives to the current non-sustainable model.
Environmental Protection Agency gets 3/4 of a week, but the President has proposed dropping that by 7% next year so they'll stop harassing industry.
NASA gets a week and a half, but the National Science Foundations only gets a half a week. You want to reach Mars on that, you must be getting the really good shit from Afghanistan.
And the winner of all winners, that agency that is so horribly in hock: Social security 3/4 of a week.
To put it in perspective the department of defense gets 43 weeks. Don't ask me where the 52 weeks worth of money for Iraq comes from, that's an off budget item.
Budget deficit for 2007: 20 weeks. Yes, we might have actually been solvent in 2007 if not for Bush deciding to play Sid Meyer's Civilization on a global scale.
Please forgive me for not addressing the cost to the Iraqi people. It's far higher than our dollars, but far harder to find the numbers. But this war is spending their lives the same way it's spending our dollars: a hundred here, a thousand there, before you know it you're it you've racked up a million.
It's guns versus butter time. Let's put some things in perspective. For the sake of comparison the numbers below will refer to each 10 billion as one week (2 weeks = 20 billion dollars). All figures are from the whitehouse dot gov site, enacted budget figures for 2007.
Homeland security gets three weeks. I'll let you think about that a minute.
The justice department gets two weeks with which buys a lot of wiretaps if you don't have to hire a lawyer to explain them all.
The veterans get three and a half weeks to support the ever increasing number of injured veterans.
The corp of Engineers gets half a week to work on bridges and levees. I wonder why they are failing.
The judicial and legislative branches together only get one week. No more complaining about legislators' pay, it's a drop in the ocean.
Energy gets two weeks, don't want to give them enough money to research real alternatives to the current non-sustainable model.
Environmental Protection Agency gets 3/4 of a week, but the President has proposed dropping that by 7% next year so they'll stop harassing industry.
NASA gets a week and a half, but the National Science Foundations only gets a half a week. You want to reach Mars on that, you must be getting the really good shit from Afghanistan.
And the winner of all winners, that agency that is so horribly in hock: Social security 3/4 of a week.
To put it in perspective the department of defense gets 43 weeks. Don't ask me where the 52 weeks worth of money for Iraq comes from, that's an off budget item.
Budget deficit for 2007: 20 weeks. Yes, we might have actually been solvent in 2007 if not for Bush deciding to play Sid Meyer's Civilization on a global scale.
Please forgive me for not addressing the cost to the Iraqi people. It's far higher than our dollars, but far harder to find the numbers. But this war is spending their lives the same way it's spending our dollars: a hundred here, a thousand there, before you know it you're it you've racked up a million.