My friend Poppy at Patridiot Watch started crunching some budget numbers yesterday and noticed that the costs of the war in Iraq, right now, add up to about $700 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Since his household has three people, that means $2,100 for his family. And based on the population of his town, that means $14.7 million for his local community.<\/p>\n
Poppy then saw something interesting: his hometown spends more on Iraq than it does on itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n In my town, dividing the population into our annual municipal budget local, state, federal and grant dollars spent — it turns out we spend less than $700 a resident. So each and every person in my home town will have spent more in the first 31 months of the Iraq War than they do on their own municipal services in a year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He even created a handy-dandy spreadsheet<\/a> so we can all play the same game at home. (You’ll need your town’s population<\/a> and annual municipal budget.) It’s not entirely straight because Iraq costs extend beyond just one year, but it does help highlight just how incredibly expensive the war has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friend Poppy at Patridiot Watch started crunching some budget numbers yesterday and noticed that the costs of the war in Iraq, right now, add up to about $700 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. Since his household has three people, that means $2,100 for his family. And based on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}