Cost of War

My son pointed this out to me today about how much a war costs. It is mind boggling to think about this. Take a look for yourself. Source : costofwar.com

Astonishing ways the resources could have been alternatively spent:

  • Paid for 23,570,077 children to attend a year of Head Start.
  • Insured 106,559,360 children for one year.
  • Hired 3,083,967 additional public school teachers for one year.
  • Provided 8,626,826 students four-year scholarships at public universities.
  • Built 1,602,311 additional housing units
  • Fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 7 years.
  • Fully funded world-wide AIDS programs for 17 years.
  • Ensured that every child in the world was given basic immunizations for 59 years.

 

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Posted on: Jun 20, 2005

Posted by: alur

Category: Whatever

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Also interesting that about 12% of the cost comes out of California, directly. (I won't mention the "indirect" cost which might be much higher.) This is while California has a much worse bang for its voting buck than almost any other state in the union. See my post on vote amplification.

Posted by M. Mortazavi on September 08, 2005 at 09:56 AM PDT #

Thanks for pointing to your post. Very interesting indeed.

Posted by Deepak Alur on September 08, 2005 at 03:49 PM PDT #

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