Annual cost of the Iraq War in perspective (show everybody you know)

[JohnLocke]

And that's for one year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/business/17leonhardt.html?em&ex=1169269200&en=0d6743c864e8ea1b&ei=5087%0A

[calimary]

1. Several hundred BILLION reasons why we need to continue

marginalizing and further discrediting the rotten egg at the top of this steaming pile.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3061360&mesg_id=3061360

[caligirl]

2. 40% of college grads have no health ins. and 60% of employers offer it, was 66%

New college graduates are among the least likely groups to have health insurance, according to the National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC). Most students are no longer covered by their parents’ insurance after they graduate. Roughly 40 percent of new graduates do not have insurance, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey. Don’t count on receiving health insurance once you get settled into a new job either. Not all employers offer coverage. The percentage of employers offering health insurance has dropped, with 60 percent of employers offering their employees health insurance in 2005, down from 66 percent in 2000, as reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

You may not have thought much about health insurance as a student, but ignoring insurance now could be a pricy mistake. If you decide to go uninsured, you could wind up with expensive medical bills, not to mention poor health. The uninsured are 30 to 50 percent more likely to be hospitalized for an avoidable medical condition, with the average cost of an avoidable hospital stay estimated to be about $3,300, according to NCHC.

source:Fastweb
http://www.fastweb.com/fastweb/resources/articles/index/110267

[Erika]

3. The redistribution of our wealth

to W's Corporate buds.

[Hissyspit]

4. They could add 'making Social Security solvent,' as well. Off to the Greatest Page with you.

[calimary]

6. No kidding! AND provide health insurance to millions.

GEEZ. Just think if we took one trillion of those dollars and funneled it all into even just ONE of the research projects into disease prevention - like, say, it ALL went to AIDS research, or cancer research, or diabetes research. I bet we'd find a cure with an investment of that size, or we'd certainly close in on one.

Or what if we threw all of it into anti-poverty programs?

DAMN, I can think of SO MANY better places to put that money. And SO MANY more positive, beneficial things to put that money toward.

[Hissyspit]

7. The word lunacy was invented to describe such as this, the fact that we spent it all on this war

instead. An entire country dancing crazed in the moonlight.

[calimary]

8. What was it the Joker asked - "are you dancing with the devil in

the pale moonlight?" Was that it?

Sounds like there are far too many people in this country still doing so. The Dance of the Damned.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

5. Great Post. So much money being spent to kill people when

it could be saving them instead such as research for diseases & feeding the hungry. Guess this is
another example of the 'culture of life'. New Orleans could be rebuilt instead of Iraq. Investments could be made into alternative fuel to get us off the oil addition.

[indepat]

9. Securing Iraq's oil reserves for the benefit of big oil is twice as important as universal health

care, seven times as important as universal preschool, and twenty times as important as beefing up our security as recommended by the 9/11 Commission: the proof is in the pudding, yet tens of millions of Amurikkkans still support the man and his dream.

[JohnLocke]

10. Kick (nt).

[JohnLocke]

11. Kick (nt).

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. K&R

[JohnLocke]

13. Kick (nt).

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. The paper reported recently that the weekly cost is going up,

and that combined with Afghanistan, that it will soon be something around 9.7 billion a week.

Follow the money. Always.