[Vision2020] A few statistics

[Carl Westberg]

Courtesy of an AP story on page 2 of this morning's Spokesman:  The nearly 
75 million dollars that President Bush has requested from Congress to 
finance six months of war expenses in Iraq is nearly 10 times the entire 
2004 budget requested for the EPA.  Four times the proposed budget for the 
Justice Department, including the FBI.  Double the request of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development.  That six months funding would buy 460,000 
young American men and womena four year Harvard education or a median-cost 
house.  A year's salary for 2 million workers at the national average wage.  
A year of prescription drug benefits for 41 million Medicare beneficiaries.  
Day care for 13.5 million poor children.  There's more, if you care to read 
the story.                                                                   
                                                                          
Carl Westberg Jr.




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