Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
09/13/03 Filed in: Tommyrot
From The Washington Post via AlterNet comes
this sobering thought:
The Washington Post notes that “the $87 billion request is nearly triple the amount the federal government plans to spend on elementary and secondary education this year, and more than twice as much as the budget for homeland security.”
The $166 billion that has already been spent or requested exceeds “the inflation-adjusted costs of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War and the Persian Gulf War combined” and “approaches the $191 billion inflation-adjusted cost of World War I.”
I'm sure, with very little prodding, we can up this
to include WWI, WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam.
We are a determined society, after all.
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