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Nicole Belle on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 8:46 AM - PDT
After I posted about the CBO’s estimation that the occupation in Iraq may end up costing the U.S. $2.4Trillion, I received this link from a C&Ler:
Using the actual size of a dollar bill, this is how large a stack of $9 million would be:
And using the same scale, this is $191 Billion, which is $5 Billion dollars shy of what Bush has demanded Congress give him with no restrictions or benchmarks THIS YEAR.
That little dark spot is the car from the above graphic. But wait, there’s more
And here is $315 Billion
Now multiply that by 7. That still is not $2.4Trillion dollars. So do Bush’s tax cuts still seem like a good idea? This is one bill that’s gonna hurt, not only us–but our children and our children’s children when it comes due.
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damn! im in the wrong business!
You know who LOVES this?
Northrop Grumman Corp
Exxon
Halliburton Company
I wonder what China is going to think when we go bankrupt? I thought they were supposed to be smart. Why do they keep throwing money down a rathole?
And where the FUCK is all that money going to? Does it cost that much money to feed and clothe soldiers who are so demoralized that they’re reduced to search and avoid missions, shooting at soda cans in a field somewhere?
I doubt it. Considering the quality of equipment those guys are getting, I’m sure Erik Prince is stuffing 100-dollar bills down his pants while in the distance unarmored humvees are ripped to shreds by ied’s.
The depth of contempt I have for these people is almost infinite.
So, we can waste this much money on an endless war, but we can’t find health insurance money for poor and middle class children.
This country is going down the drain.
Thought you’d find this interesting.
Hell, I’ll pay anything to get that boob and darth cheney out of office! Nice visual aid by the way; hey what’s wrong with borrow and spend conservatives?
I’ve said for a long time, (everyone says no, no,no…) we could just fly C-130’s loaded with 5 + 10 dollar bills and push them out the back. The entire country would be ten feet deep in cash, no violence because every morning you would have to shovel the driveway to get out. After all, our currency will be as good as snow soon, but at least it will keep you warm! Jeeves- it’s chilly in here, throw another thousand on the fire would you?
Liberal Jer @ 5:
We’re already down the drain and are now traveling through the sewer.
I might have posted this yesterday but….I wrote a paper eleven years ago on the elimination of nuclear weapons and part of it was the cost. Put this in relationship to the cost of the war in Iraq. Through 1996 the cost to develop, deploy, and maintain the nuclear arsenal of the U.S. in 1996 dollars is 4 trillion dollars. That is equivalent to one million dollars a day for almost 11,000 years, that’s right 11,000 years. The Iraq war has only been going on for 4+ years and is already the equivalent of a million dollars a day for more than 6700 years. I don’t know about you but I’ve never had a million dollars so this is incomprehensible to me.
Good stuff. But I read the article to say that Iraq and Afghanistan would total 2.4T. It says that Iraq would account for about 80%, or 1.9T. That’s an important distinction to me because I actually support our efforts in Afghanistan. It’s specifically Iraq that is the reason for my outrage. (still working on my reading skills … I may not have that quite right)
Mmmm… Money tower…
*gurgle*
All this really doesn’t matter as long as you have a yellow ribbon magnet on your SUV
And all that bulk of dough, represents work, resources, and people: all of it being drained out of our hides.
So W can sit on top of the pyramid with his pals and piss down on us. Just like Reagan promised–trickle down.
How many forests will be clearcut just for the paper to print the money?
Ron @ 15:
That’s the good news. When you’re as filthy stinking rich as the Cheney/Bush/Haliburton crowd, you don’t need printed money. All you have to do is click on “Transfer to Caymans” on your keyboard. It’s all electronic, and environmentally friendly.
They don’t care. More debt equals more money in the global finacial system.
Watch this short film and learn:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/135.html
If the republicans were worth a shit, they’d be as angry about this as we are.
how many stories is $2.4 trillion?
about the same height as the twin towers?
ralph @ 3:
What’s China going to say? Something along the lines of, “Well thanks, we always wanted territory on the Western Hemisphere” would be my guess.
We can use this visual at the 2008 elections against the Repubs running for office.
Maybe this is the tower the terrorist were trying to hit with the fourth plane….
Depressing. I’m going to work my whole life and if I’m lucky and things go as planned I might gross more than a car slam full of $1 bills.
The sad thing is that our government spent $250 million just to build a wallet that would fit that cash. The wallet was built by KBR and as a result about $9 billion fell out and was lost somewhere in Iraq.
ralph @ 3:
I know this is late.. but maybe they’re trying to take over America.. with money? All they have to do is ask for a large return.. then invade America.
If you’re like most, you’ll be lucky to have a bucketful at the end. Lucky.
JUDGE NAUGHT @ 8:
If i could have just teeny tiny wafer-thin slice of that, who would notice.
but considering his friends are getting it. . . makes it a lot easier.. .
As long as it’s all going to the defense industry and not towards some damn commie healthcare program, all’s good right?
/snark
They must do this for the trillion figure. Just use Moon’s or Earths…or Sun’s.
StirFry @ 28:
Oh, that’s how it starts. That’s how all these contractors probably justify themselves initially, and avoid having to jump out of bed in the middle of the night to commit seppuku out of the horrendous shame of shaking down the American taxpayers who aren’t even born yet to pay for their WORTHLESS product or service.
But then they realize, hey, it’s money and I don’t have a conscience anyway. Shame is for pussies.
Then they find out there are human rights lawyers all over the world who won’t let them just fukkin’ eat at a nice Paris diner, and they have to go find some third-world country to live in because their name and face is all over the news in America because they’re a treasury-looting war profiteer thief and people will accost them on the streets and ask them for their GODDAMN MONEY BACK.
And then they get into drug smuggling and end up using all their ex-mil contacts, and turn into cartoonish villains twirling their moustaches on some TV show.
And then Uma Thurman shows up at their South American villa and slays them with the five-point-palm exploding heart technique.
If only . . .
“According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.” -Donald H. Rumsfeld, 9/10/2001
ralph @ 3:
The Chinese aren’t stupid. They know that if they wait long enough, they’ll just come in and take everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. hey white people, prepare to be Asia’s domestic help. In fact , I have long predicted that if things stay on the path we’re on, the decendents of those braindead 25%ers that voted against their best interests, hoping that it would bring them favor from the overlords they helped put in power, will find their poor freckled faced little daughters sitting in a window in Bangkok with a number on their chest. Horay for Capitalism!
This is very impressive, but before it gets used to fry the tiny minds of republican candidates, we should check the details. The third graphic is labeled 315 billion, yet it is shown as a massive stack relative to the second, which is 191 billion. But, 315 is only +/- half again as much as 191, so the third stack is either mis-labeled or is way too big. Perhaps it is meant to represent the entire 2.4 trillion?
A little visual aid
http://galleries.lycos.co.uk/d.....monroe.jpg
slippytoad @ 4:
And check out the Costofwar webiste to see where it could go! http://www.nationalpriorities......War-3.html
Thank you for linking to the $87 billion dollar website I went there yesterday and printed it out to give my son, in 6th grade, a visual of how much money that was, his math class had a problem related to money and the eight of 1 billion………. sorry rambling
ysbaddaden @ 36:
:)
More pleasing to the eye, YSB.
that looks
like enough money
to fill in the potholes
with heh…
This is why I don’t understand why the US taxpayers put up with this.
We pool our money together for the benefit of us, yet our money is wired directly to the war profiteers of BushCo.
We’re not at war, which is nothing but a front for taxpayer fraud by BushCo. They designed and executed this heist, and we’re either too stunned to believe it or too stupid to realize what BushCo did.
I have to stop thinking about this, or I’ll give new meaning to “going postal”.
AbbeyHoffmansGhost @ 10:
And those figures are already out of date due to the RRW (reliable replacement warhead) program and trying to sneak the RNEP (robust near-earth penetrator) warhead into the budget. (We apparently really have an obsession about underground bunkers.)
Funny, that. When I was in Vietnam in the late sixties, I helped deliver and unload from a helicopter eight military footlockers full of one hundred dollar bills to village up in the mountains. When I returned a few weeks later I found that everything from a bowl of rice to a pack of cigarettes would cost you a hundred bucks. There was no fives, tens, twenties, etc. to make change.
You’re right, in that to the Iraqi on the street, a hundred dollar bill probably means little.
Pawsie @ 25:
We won the cold war, without firing a shot by making Russia outspend us militarily. China is just doing the same to us, without declaring an ideological “war” against us. They’ll let us go belly up then just walk in and change all the locks on all our businesses and homes, since they will be holding all the bank notes!
we start that next war, and the bill comes in a lot sooner.
We should build a monument to the Twin Towers by erecting two pillars with stacks of treasury bills, equal to the amount we’re flushing down the toilet in Irak.
Looks like the North Tower is already taken care of.
Ohhhhh I see…it’s all so clear now. Bush intends to commemorate 9/11 by leaving a bill exactly the same size as the WTC! What a clever little chimp!
Hind sight is 20/20, but perhaps the most appropriate World Trade Center memorial would have been to rebuild the twin towers with stacks of 1 dollar bills.
DAR
If you were to lay one trillion dollar bills end to end it would extend from the earth to just a little past the Sun. That’s over 90 million miles. It takes light over eight minutes (traveling at 186,000 miles per second) to travel that far. Absolutely true.
Course, the ones closest to the Sun will burn up quickly and then the experiment is over.
Darrel @ 48:
No, it means the Republicans will insist on six more months to complete the project. We’ll be told we’re turning the corner, and that the sun is in its last throes, and that we’ll be greeted as liberators …
Wouldn’t be so much if it is American dollars.
Ha, it’s just paper. Don’t you people get the joke? The USA is 9 trillion dollars in debt, that’s 30 thousand for every man, woman, and child in the country, so we’ll never pay. So what does that mean? Answer: it’s all just one big fat Ponzi scheme; that is the world economy. We buy products because we are the desinated consumer. The producers exchange our dollars that we give them for their products for Treasury Bonds, simple. Now, why do the producers buy Treasury Bonds if they’re IOUs that will never be paid(the thousand dollar question)?
When we get two stacks of treasury bills piled up 110 storeys high, we can fly a couple planes to smash into them and hip-hip-hooray! Cycle is complete. War is Over. Mission Accomplished. As Dr. Phil would say, “closure.” We’ve been healed.
I would like to see a vote of the people, vote for or against this war. Those who vote for it, pay for it and fight it. Those who oppose the war do not pay and stay at home. That would change the course of the neocon agenda.