What Cost A War?

1.2 Trillion

Huh?

1.2 Trillion dollars. That is how much the Iraq war is now projected to cost (eventually). Half of that has already been spent...er...borrowed... at interest. Trust me, the projections to this point are already twice as large as when the president proposed a war on Iraq.

Bargain, huh?

Follow the money, they always say, and now we shall.

First.

How much money is 1.2 Trillion Dollars U.S.

Lets Break it down.




$1,200,000,000,000

There are approximately 300 million of us in this country.

That is




$1,200,000,000,000 (dollars) divided by
300,000,000 (Americans)

$4,000 per American is the tab we must pay for just this war!


There are approximately 6 Billion individuals alive in the world today.

If each paid a portion of this war, every person alive would owe $200 for the "cause". Appalling.

However, this figure is on the low end, because if we accept the CSM figure, it is really going to be at or above

$2 trillion or $6,666.67 per American.


For a typical hourly full time

50 weeks a year of work times 40 hours a week is a 2,000 hour work year

worker in America, this would be about $3.33 for every hour that you work in the work year (taking NO overtime as a baseline, since you can be denied overtime pay anyway these days). As you work this week, imaging if part of your pay --and that of everybody else working in every town in every state-- all day every day all of this year-- is being molded into bombs to drop on well tanned people.

Don't forget that every baby crawling around on the floor, every senior crouched over their cane, every bum in the gutter, every student, and every politician also owes $18.25 per day (if we were to pay for it all in one year) even on Sundays, and on Christmas.