[lbo-talk] tradeoffs

[Doug Henwood]

According to the Cost of War website <http://costofwar.com/>, for 
what the US has spent on wrecking Iraq, we could have:

* fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 9 years

* fully funded global anti-AIDS programs for 22 years

* assured that every child in the world was given basic immunizations 
for the next 74 years

* paid for 29.6 million children to attend Head Start

* built 2 million public housing units

They don't say this, but it could also have funded a universal child 
care program in the US for three years (according to Barbara 
Bergmann's estimate of the costs).

Doug