When will this end... Just today, President Bush wants another $46 billion to fund the wars, yet he won't spend $36 billion dollars for kids healthcare.
This will bring the total costs for the wars for 2007 alone to over $200 billion and that brings the entire cost of the war to over $1 trillion, yes that is trillion with a "t".
Yeah, it's great isn't it? Even if you follow the bogus Bush logic that the War in Iraq is in some bizarre way linked to a global conflict with Al Qaeda and, thereby, linked to 9/11 the lives of 2800 NY fatcats is worth more than the lives of the hundreds of thousands of kids who would be helped by the S Chip program.
"Fatcats"? Most of the 9/11 victims were ordinary office workers, firefighters, police officers, paramedics and lest I forget, aircraft passengers.
Ok, lets be clear about some things.
One, 9/11 was a terrible tragedy brought on by a group of sick SOB's. Two, every innocent life is precious no matter what they do for a living. Three, I do not believe that Iraq is any more linked to 9/11 than invading Uzbekistan would have been.
Four, there were not 2800 firefighter, cops, and paramedics killed, the majority of victims fall into the category "office workers". The break down on loss of life is approximately 340 Emergency personnel and 60 cops. The 3 airplanes had approximately 60 people each. This leaves over 2000 people in our office worker category. The largest tenant in the WTC was Morgan Stanley, an investment banker. It stands to reason then that the majority loss of life was investment bankers. Investment bankers are, traditionally, known as fatcats.
The lives of investment bankers are still precious and important. But in terms of a dollars spent to lives saved ratio, S Chip has a better return than Iraq.
