I am opposed to the IRAQ war. The Boston globe over the weekend put up a simple comparison of what the current price tag of the war, at 456$ billion once the current US spending bill is passed, could have bought otherwise. It’s simply staggering to think of how insane it all is.
“According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth.
At the upper range of those estimates, the $456 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world’s poor for five and a half years.”
— from Slide 9
See the slideshow here (image above from www.n24.de)
[…] Stevey hipped me to this: What does $456 billion buy?. A reality inducing slideshow, by the Boston Globe, of what US taxpayer money coulda bought, instead of throwin’ it all down the drain in Iraq. […]
It’s pretty crazy…. We now have the wealth and power to make planet earth into a nice(er) place for everyone of us. All that is lacking is the will to do it.
I am hoping that we can come up with it.
hey dudes, thought i’d let you know i referenced this in Midnight Poutine today. there was a LOT of money talk around Montreal this week. you can check out the post here:
http://www.midnightpoutine.ca/media/2007/05/this_week_in_blogs_for_may_10_money/
keep up the good work!
~s.