Phil,
Actually the individual stats were mine based off the Columbia University
professor's monthly figure. If you take the governments stats it is just
about the same and some stats I've seen, depending on time spans, some are
actually higher more like 255 million a day. The lowest I've seen was 200
million a day. The difference in these is they can low ball it as much as
possible not figuring in expenses to repair or replace broken equipment
damaged, health or disability benefits to broken soldiers, interest on the
loans in which we're borrowing to fund the war and etc. The gove don't
include those but they are war expenses nonetheless.
You're right though awards don't validate a claim in and of themselves.
Brad
At 11:17 PM 2/17/2008, you wrote:
>Brad,
>
>Although I think making that comparison is well worth mentioning, but Since
>the gave a Nobel peace Prize to the lovely, and former, vice-president of
>the United States, who also ran for president, and who also claims
>scientifically the planet is heating up and within 20 years, it will be
>irreversible because we drive cars and who also says we should bring our own
>re usable cloth bags to the grocery store to carry our food home, I am a
>little worried when I hear what Nobel Prize winners say. I've had PHD and
>MA degreed people in my church who I learned weren't any smarter than I was
>as a high school graduate and 85 hours of college of which 80 hours are
>theological courses. haw.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "B Dunse" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 10:00 PM
>Subject: Statistic on war
>
>
> > According to a Nobel Prize winning economist from Columbia University,
> > taking in consideration the current cost of the War in Iraq we have spent
> > 7.1 billion dollars a month which if you wish to see it in tangible set of
> > statistics it breaks out as such:
> >
> > $7100000000 Per month
> > $229032258 Per day figuring 31 days in the month
> > $9543010 Per hour
> > $159050 Per minute
> > $2650 Per second
> >
> > Just think how long you have to work to pay for the amount of money
> > spent in the time it takes you to read this?
> >
> > If you are an average reader and soaking in the numbers, likely in
> > disbelief I might add, according to the US government taking the average
> > age and ethnicity over 243 million workers, for the money spent on the war
> > while reading this you'd probably have to work two years at $28,567 per
> > year. That is around 21 seconds totaling $57134.
> >
> > If you convert that into an average man's life span, that being 21 seconds
> > equaling 2 years of income, the average man would go from living 75 years
> > to that of only a little over 13 minutes.
> >
> > That puts it in perspective a little doesn't it?
> >
> >
Warm regards,
Brad Dunse
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