Daily Cost


"the money spent on the war EACH DAY is enough to enroll an additional 58,000 children in Head Start for a year, or make a year of college affordable for 160,000 low-income students through Pell Grants, or pay the annual salaries of nearly 11,000 additional border patrol agents or 14,000 more police officers."

“For a fraction of the cost of this war,” said Mr. Stiglitz, “we could have put Social Security on a sound footing for the next half-century or more.”

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www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04herbert.html?ex=1362286800&en=d00653ea9b2ea682&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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