How would YOU spend 3/4 of a BILLION dollars
today, and again tomorrow, and again the next day...?
Hard to grasp that each of these figures is for just a single day! Over a year’s time, that would be 30,660 new schools—imagine 600 new schools in every state next year (where would they put them all?), or simply repairing and equipping the ones you have, or paying decent salaries to attract qualified teachers. Imagine the kind of teachers we’d get (through fierce competition) if we paid them even a miniscule fraction of what sports stars get!
To see how these figures are calculated, visit their website and click on the link for Facts & Figures.
It is bad enough that our money, half a million per minute, is simply wasted; but it’s even more sickening that it’s being used to hurt and kill people needlessly.
(...Which I say in the context of understanding the difference between just and unjust war, as defined on this site and elsewhere.)
What’s this “Iraq war” charge on my bill?
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