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Mar 14 2008

Money spent on Iraq in a day could…

Published by rational at 8:25 pm under Uncategorized Edit This

From Globe and Mails Facts and Arguments section

The amount of money spent every day on the Iraq war, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress calculates, “is enough to enroll an additional 58,000 children in Head Start for a year, or make a year of college affordable for 160,000 low income students through Pell grants, or pay the annual salaries of nearly 11,000 additional border patrol agents, or 14,000 more police officers” Beb Herbert writes in The New York Times

And this is for each day!

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