What has the War in Iraq Cost your Town?

Yesterday I scrolled down to the Cost of War counter I have at the bottom of this page and noticed that it was $508 billion and counting. I thought I had been watching it closely waiting for the time it would flip over to $500 billion so I could have my raving, ranting bitch about it. For some reason it flipped back to $500 and some odd billion today, so I'm not really to late. If you click on the counter at the bottom of this page it will take you to the site. From there you can plug in where you are and it will tell you the actual costs of the war for your specific community...in other words what your community could have had instead. Here's what my community could have had and will have to do without for the rest of 2008:

Taxpayers in Jackson, Mississippi have paid $127.8 million for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

28,754 People with Health Care OR

94,637 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR

4,089 Public Safety Officers OR

2,527 Music and Arts Teachers OR

27,779 Scholarships for University Students OR

9 New Elementary Schools OR

1,883 Affordable Housing Units OR

75,352 Children with Health Care OR

21,310 Head Start Places for Children OR

2,623 Elementary School Teachers OR

2,297 Port Container Inspectors

Notes and Sources
Go to Cost of War Counter
Copyright 2007 National Priorities Project
info@nationalpriorities.org

Taxpayers in Jackson, Mississippi will pay $16.3 million for additional proposed Iraq War spending for FY 2008. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

3,656 People with Health Care OR

12,034 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR

520 Public Safety Officers OR

321 Music and Arts Teachers OR

3,532 Scholarships for University Students OR

1 New Elementary Schools OR

239 Affordable Housing Units OR

9,582 Children with Health Care OR

2,710 Head Start Places for Children OR

334 Elementary School Teachers OR

292 Port Container Inspectors

Notes and Sources
Go to Cost of War Counter
Copyright 2007 National Priorities Project
info@nationalpriorities.org


So, no, I'm not in the mood to talk about Hillary and her "southern drawl" speech last night.....