[Peace-discuss] What we're doing
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at uiuc.edu
Fri Dec 2 16:45:49 CST 2005
[From Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer listserv. --CGE]
According to the Cost of War website <http://costofwar.com/>,
for what the US has spent on wrecking Iraq, we could have:
* fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 9 years
* fully funded global anti-AIDS programs for 22 years
* assured that every child in the world was given basic
immunizations for the next 74 years
* paid for 29.6 million children to attend Head Start
* built 2 million public housing units
They don't say this, but it could also have funded a universal
child care program in the US for three years (according to
Barbara Bergmann's estimate of the costs).
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