Cost per person for the Iraq war

OK, let me get this straight. The new war funding bill gives Bush $95 billion, with a B, yes that is 000,000,000

And it only pays for the war effort till the end of THIS September.

That's about 100 days from now. So if my math is correct, and if you don't count whatever other funding and moneys already existed before this new bill passed, then the war in Iraq is costing us $1,000,000,000 per day. About $41 million (yup, $41,000,000) every single hour of every day.

So there are only about 300 million US citizens out there, including little infants and retired elderly and all that. So each and every one of us, including those little infants, is paying $1,000 per year for this war we have going.

$3,000-$4,000 per family.

That is a lot of money.

I don't mean to say that the war is all about financials. There are lives being lost, political turmoil, violence, you name it. But the fact is that money also matters, because this is $95,000,000,000 that we could be spending on revolutionizing public transportation or massively upgrading the technology in our schools or any number of public works projects that would have long term benefits for the country.

Depressing. Billions. Many billions. A billion every day. $40 million every hour. $3000-$4000 per family, your family, every family.

Depressing.