$341.4 million per day
That’s the cost of the Bush misadventure in Iraq. $341.4 million per day, every day, is leaving our country and going to fight a war that is as needless as it is illegal.
I’m working on my own here and trying not to cheat by looking up these figures on the many websites where they are more reliably available. But I’m pretty sure that an elementary school teacher doesn’t cost much more than, say, $60,000 a year in pay, benefits and assorted resources. So, let’s see, in one day we could hire something like 5,900 elementary school teachers. And they would spend their money in the US instead of moving it to Caribbean tax-shelters like a certain US contractor whose initials are KBR. I bet that would help the economy. Not to mention helping to ensure that 5th graders can read.
If you had 1 day of Iraq crazy-money to spend to make the world a better place, what would you do with it?
Your turn to snark!
