• $87,500,000,000 $87,500,000,000 The United States will spend some $87.5 billion this fiscal year on our crippled, hostile, semi-chaotic, impoverished client state of Iraq. The figure is written as $87,500,000,000. It is 47 percent more than the federal government will
• $87,500,000,000
$87,500,000,000
The United States will spend some $87.5 billion this fiscal year on our crippled, hostile, semi-chaotic, impoverished client state of Iraq.
The figure is written as $87,500,000,000. It is 47 percent more than the federal government will spend on education this year, as we leave many children behind. It is 67 percent more than we will spend on transportation. It is nearly 11 times what we spend on environmental protection. It is nearly four times what we spend on homeland security.
It would provide two years of a prescription drug program for older Americans.
It would buy a new Ford Explorer SUV for every family in Missouri. It would pay for a new Mississippi River bridge 70 times over. It would run the entire Missouri state government – welfare payments, parks, health, police, schools, road-building and all – for more than four years.
That $87.5 billion comes on top of the $75 billion appropriated earlier this year. Expect President George W. Bush to be back asking for more.
We’ll add it to a federal deficit that could top $500 billion next year. In all likelihood, our children will be paying off that debt when they are old and gray.
Just something to think about.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
