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It was mentioned on the news last night that the United States is putting $1 billion a month into its continued operations in Iraq.
Let's put that into perspective: If that money was yours, you'd be making one billion dollars a month.
That's a lot of money.
Another trivia point was that current projections show that unchecked, the U.S. deficit alone will soon grow to $1.4 trillion -- that's about the gross national product of France.
Again, a veritable shitload.
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From last November:
Larry Lindsey, President Bush's economic adviser, recently said that a successful war on Iraq would be good for business.
"When there is a regime change in Iraq, you could add three to five million barrels (per day) of production to world supply," he said in September. "The successful prosecution of the war would be good for the economy."
You bet. At a buck ninety one per gallon for regular unleaded, this war is great for someone's economy.
Posted by: CapeCoder | August 27, 2003 02:24 PM
REALLY? Holy shiAt. I thought it was just going to stay around a managable 600-700 billion a year. DAMN.
Posted by: tokey | August 28, 2003 02:58 AM