Cost of Afghanistan War to Houston, TX

According to costofwar.com, "Taxpayers in the city of Houston, Texas will pay $754.1 million for Proposed Afghanistan war spending for FY2011. For the same amount of money, the following could be provided:

• 407,386 Children Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
• 13,154 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
• 13,108 Firefighters for One Year OR
• 102,975 Head Start Slots for Children for One Year OR
• 139,025 Households with Renewable Electricity - Solar Photovoltaic for One Year OR
• 370,734 Households with Renewable Electricity-Wind Power for One Year OR
• 101,656 Military Veterans Receiving VA Medical Care for One Year OR
• 199,437 People Receiving Low-Income Healthcare for One Year OR
• 12,565 Police or Sheriff's Patrol Officers for One Year OR
• 84,442 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
• 135,869 Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550"

Just say no to the unjust, wasteful war being waged in Afghanistan. Click on the link to see the trade off for your community.

One Trillion Dollars

Here is an excellent illustration of how much money one trillion dollars is (i.e., $1,000,000,000,000 or 1 million million dollars). It is hard to get your head around, but this graphic helps. That is a person in the bottom left hand corner of the stack of money. (Source: www.pagetutor.com)



"...and remember, those are $100 bills."

One trillion is the cost of our wars waged in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. China holds $1.02 trillion in U.S debt.