Friday, January 26, 2007

11. What $1.2Trillion Can buy.

Sorry for the link "problem" in my earlier posting about Foolish Spending.

Basically the article provides a handle for analyzing huge dollar amounts in proposed budgets by comparing what can be bought.

We could double cancer research, fund medicine for diabetics and heart disease sufferers, have a global immunization campaign, provide universal pre-school for all 3 and 4 year olds in America, reconstruct New Orleans, implement the recommendations of the 911 commission, send more military help to Afghanistan and provide peace-keeping troops in Darfur.

Or we can fund the war in Iraq.

It's worth registering to read the whole article.

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