Bush Values: Where He Puts Our Money

You can tell a family's values by where it puts its money. If, for example, a family puts their money in a big house and expensive cars while not saving for their children's college education, that tells you something about the values of the adults in that family. The same is true for politicians when it comes to spending our tax dollars. Where they choose to put our money shows what they value. With that in mind, how are conservatives doing?

If you go to the website www.costofwar.com you will see what the Iraq War is costing United States tax payers. The site has a counter with constantly changing figures. The figures displayed are a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The number is based on Congressional appropriations.

As of this morning, the cost of this war exceeded 419 billion dollars. Note that the figures are based just on the Iraq War and not on the operations in Afghanistan. The site also has comparisions of what we could have gotten for this money. We could have give, for example, over 20 million American children scholarships to attend four-year universities. We could have built over 3 million housing units. We could have hired over 7 million teachers for one year. We could have provided medical insurance for over 250 million children for one year.

Of course, Bush and his gang of radical conservatives would never have spent our money to help Americans. They will spend billions on a futile quest to bring democracy to Iraq, but not to help their fellow Americans. Just like with a family, where the Bushies put our tax dollars shows the values of George W. Bush. What it shows is that he doesn't value Americans.
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The cost of war website is maintained by the National Priorities Project. The Project's website has other interesting stuff.