By Steve Hynd
This Sunday, May 30, at a little after 10 a.m., the National Priorities Project's Cost of War counter will hit the $1 trillion dollar mark for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What would you do with $1 trillion dollars, the amount that's been spent on America's invasions and long occupations to no good end?
One thing you could do would be clean up the Gulf - possibly several hundred times over!
BP PLC has estimated the cost to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is $930 million so far
Costs are rising fast in the Gulf, they're up 20% since Monday, but a trillion dollars is a lot of money.
What's your One Trillion Dollar Plan? Play the game yourself on Facebook.
Here, in the land of the "True North," whatever that means with 39C weather in ON & QC where most of us polite asshole live, we are spending $1 billion CAN, about the same as $1 billion US today, to protect people - aka leaders of G8 or G20 countries - that actually no one that you really like gives a shit about. JUst coming up we have the misfortune of hosting silly-ass leaders meetings you know.
ReplyDeleteJust a little perspective, we here in CA are about a 10th the size of you schmucks to the South of us & above the Rio Grande so that $1 billion in your terms would be $10 billion.
Would you waste $10 billion to protect people you don't like, think are mainly assholes, knowe are self-righteous idiots, and hope, ultimately, may know the joys of a extended battle with some very miserable cancer, eh.
Sorry for the friggin typos but hard to see through my sweat filled eyes to my MacBook Pro's keyboard.
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