I don’t know what it is about political infographics, but damn I love them. I think it’s because I’m a visual person for the most part.
This cost of war infographic shows useful things that the U.S. could have spent their money on, had we not gone to “war” with Iraq.
(If you can’t tell, I don’t think we, as in America, should have gone to Iraq.)
Another way is they could have blown that money on a lot of booze and hash. Then we all really wouldn’t give a shit.
Just a thought.
Preach on. The costs keep going up! The opportunity cost of what we *could* have done with the money is just plain depressing. I decided to have some fun thinking up alternative uses for the money. Take a peek:
http://mytrilliondollars.blogspot.com/2007/03/here-it-goes-one-trillion-dollars.html