Chekhov's Mistress
True Compassion
I hate to be a bore, but has anyone noticed that $3,900,000,000 is a lot of money? This is the amount, coaxed out of Mr. Rumsfeld Wednesday, that we are spending each month to maintain troops in Iraq. That’s not even including reconstruction costs.
Add the $950,000,000 we are spending each month in Afghanistan and you have nearly five b i l l i o n dollars per month. That comes to $58,200,000,000 every year, and according to General Franks, we will be in Iraq for the “foreseeable future.”
Now I’m sure someone out there could figure out how many times $58 billion in dollar bills could be stacked to the moon or something, but I won’t because, as I said, I hate to be a bore. But I would like to point out that with $58,200,000,000 President Bush could buy each man, woman, and child in New York City more than 1600 pints of Guinness (at $5/pint), which at a couple of pints per day, would last well over two years. Now, that’s compassion!
Can’t we find a better way to spend this enormous amount of money?
Article quoted “Rumsfeld Doubles Estimate for Cost of Troops in Iraq.” New York Times July 10th, 2003. p. A-1.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: July 16, 2003
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