Red State Renegade

March 4, 2008

Each day in Iraq costs the yearly salary of 11,000 border patrol agents!

Filed under: Iraq, Troop Surge @ 2:30 am

From the New York Times:

Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, cited the Joint Economic committee’s own calculations from last fall that showed that 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.

This is costing you $3,845 PER SECOND!

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