The Assocated Press the other day reported that Congress has just appropriated another 70 billion dollars for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying "with Iraq alone costing about eight billion a month, another infusion of money will be needed next spring."
Eight billion dollars a month. That’s $8,000,000,000. A month.
Or $266,666,666 a day. That’s $266 million dollars a day.
Or $11,111,111 an hour. Eleven million dollars an hour.
So George W. Bush has not only managed to piss away the tremendous politcal capital the U.S. gained after the 9/11 attacks, but he’s "stayed the course" from the Clinton-era budget surplus to a 2006 defecit of roughly $400 billion dollars.
Ken!