Yes, the Nat'l. Priorities Project
Posted By: has a calculator - sm - Starcat on 2006-08-30
In Reply to: Experts warn U.S. is coming apart at the seams - Liberal
here: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=61
that shows what it costs your community to **stay the course**. :-(
Here is what it is for California, for instance:
The National Priorities Project has a real eye-opening website that calculates the cost of the War in Iraq and them compares it to what we could do with that money.
Taxpayers in California will pay $40.3 billion for the cost of war in Iraq. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
* 16,733,296 People with Health Care or
* 627,551 Elementary School Teachers or
* 4,767,634 Head Start Places for Children or
* 25,168,314 Children with Health Care or
* 235,246 Affordable Housing Units or
* 4,390 New Elementary Schools or
* 7,685,109 Scholarships for University Students or
* 616,017 Music and Arts Teachers or
* 741,482 Public Safety Officers or
* 117,140,845 Homes with Renewable Electricity or
* 601,790 Port Container Inspectors
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It's a matter of priorities.
Some people think taking people's lives in Iraq is more important than saving lives in America. It's nothing new with this administration.
I believe every single person in this country is going to be negatively affected by this disaster, while Bush sits by and watches and just flashes that moronic grin of his, and Cheney and his Halliburton buddies get richer and richer. Don't look for his followers to wake up and see this idiot administration for what it is. Instead, look for them to become frustrated because their own lives will be falling apart, and look for the anger, hatred and rage on their part to increase. Look at this board. It's happening already, and it's only going to get worse. Just wait.
Mr. Burns (from The Simpsons). They seem to be of like mind & priorities.
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Project Vote Smart sm
Here is just one site and it is pretty detailed. Hope it helps. I also recommend learning about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) to learn about the role they play in our political system and the media. They do have an impact on what candidates are selected and get a lot of press coverage, while others are hidden and smeared, Dennis included. All the frontrunners are members. I am doing volunteer work with one of the campaigns, and getting quite an education on the dirt in politics. Here is the link to Project Vote Smart:
http://www.vote-smart.org/election_president_search.php?type=alpha
Leave my swine odor project alone!
If you're trying to equate someone having food with knowing why pigs stink, I can't follow you. This is a burning question that has gone unanswered for far too long. And when we've spent that money, we're going to fund the question "Is the Pope a Catholic" - another conundrum that has plagued mankind for centuries.
Leave my swine odor project alone!
If you're trying to equate someone having food with knowing why pigs stink, I can't follow you. This is a burning question that has gone unanswered for far too long. And when we've spent that money, we're going to fund the question 'Is the Pope a Catholic?', 'Does a bear you-know-what in the woods?' - and other conundrums (or is it conundra?) that have plagued mankind down through the centuries.
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