It's only money...

Heck, that 1.2 Trillion might even be able to contribute towards getting you a new hat.

So many choices...health care or security or more weaponry and more years of remolding nations which don't want to be changed...at least not by the U.S.

I wonder if they'd be willing to send a few billion dollars over towards me...come to think on it, I'm not greedy. I'll settle for 50 million...and maybe a few dollars towards nephrotic research (again I'm not greedy a flat billion dollars would suffice).

Thanks for the info Gus.

the people who prosecute this war and their lemming like supporters do not care about any of that and their answer will always be "cost of freedom".

they are the real global cancer.

No problem, little buddy.

Easy come, easy go.

A trillion here, a trillion there: Pretty soon it starts to add up.

just speaking strictly about numbers ... even though i trained as an accountant in my younger years , any number with more than eight zeros leaves me baffled .
governments that throw around numbers like 'trillion' , probably don't really know what it represents in the economy .
for us ordinary citizens it's not very meaningful either , i think .
imo it is much more useful to show what it means for for an individual ,
as an example : how much is the national debt that each citizen/family carries . those are numbers i am able to understand - trillions , forget it .

it reminds me of johnny carson imitating carl sagan : "...billions and billions..." . i wonder what johnny would say if he were still around , perhaps he could still give us a chuckle now and then .
hbg

That's the trouble with governments and corporations: they aren't wowed by numbers with zerooooooooos. For me, every penny counts, which is why I always pick up pennies.

plainoldme :
we've noticed that a lot of people won't bother picking up pennies ... or even dimes anymore .
mrs h and i just can't leave even a penny sitting on the sidewalk ... and of course , we have to spit on it( ) before putting it into the pocket .
hbg

My wife will pick up a penny if it is "heads," because it supposedly brings good luck. She leaves "tails" on the ground, because those are bad luck.

Your wife is not thinking properly, edgar. Tell her she is wasting a lot of money.

You tell her. I'm afraid to.

Depressing.

as far i am concerned , a penny is a penny , no matter what side up .
used to find a quarter in the good old days , even a canadian dollar coin (the loonie) , but somebody is picking them up before we get there - no fair !
did find about 30 cents in assorted change the other day in a parking lot - boy , did we live it up !
hbg
hbg

Hamburger -- Why do you spit on the money? Superstition? My daughter also picks up coins and her husband tells her that she doesn't know where they've been, but both my daughter and I figure a coin from the street -- baked in the sun or washed by the rain -- is probably cleaner than the coin the cashier hands you as change.

edgar -- The heads up business is something I learned within the past few years. My older son also picks up coins, not because of superstition, but because, like me, he is generally poor.

I pick up every coin I find. I would like to get myself a tin cup to wave in people's faces, but I think the boss might frown on it.

I like the graphics in that article. I remember a demography class in high school were we tried to grasp the number 6 billion (the number of people the world would have on it that year, or maybe it was 5 bill, whatever). Those numbers were really hard to fathom, but graphics surely helped.

By dividing up 1.2 trillion bucks, we could give every man woman and child on earth 200 bucks.

We could give each New Orleans resident around $2.7 million.

Or $1,700 to each person on the continent of Africa

For every person to have been killed by AIDS, 48,000 could go into research for a cure.

$28,000 could go to every person int he world who is living with AIDs.