Regardless of what the true figures might be, it is mind boggling, to say
the least.

Phil.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad D" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Statistic on war


> 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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