Thursday, January 18, 2007

The True Cost of War

How sick are we as a country that we will spend this money on a war but completely scoff at the idea of spending it on the health and wellbeing of our fellow citizens? It disgusts me.

Annual cost

Iraq war: $200 billion

US universal health care: $100 billion
US universal preschool: $ 35 billion
US Security (9/11 Commission): $ 10 billion
US cancer research: $ 6 billion

Immunize world’s children
Against measles, whooping
Cough, tetanus, tuberculosis,
Polio, and diphtheria $ 0.6 billion

Source: New York Times

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 01/18 at 09:22 AM
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