$1,200,000,000,000.00

what can $1.2 trillion buy?

"$1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign — a doubling of cancer research funding, treatment for every American whose diabetes or heart disease is now going unmanaged and a global immunization campaign to save millions of children’s lives.

Combined, the cost of running those programs for a decade wouldn’t use up even half our money pot. So we could then turn to poverty and education, starting with universal preschool for every 3- and 4-year-old child across the country. The city of New Orleans could also receive a huge increase in reconstruction funds.

The final big chunk of the money could go to national security. The recommendations of the 9/11 Commission that have not been put in place — better baggage and cargo screening, stronger measures against nuclear proliferation — could be enacted. Financing for the war in Afghanistan could be increased to beat back the Taliban’s recent gains, and a peacekeeping force could put a stop to the genocide in Darfur."



or we could spend $300 million a day rebuilding iraq

this is the first time taxes have not been raised during wartime

and the bushies are just dying to cut taxes on the wealthiest of us

which means our children and their children will pay for this bullshit war

while a couple greedy maggots get rich quick

off the lives of americans they've brainwashed to believe they're fighting a good cause