More Social Dissent

So when (not if) Bush's new Iraq spending bill goes through congress, the total cost of the Iraq war to taxpayers will be at about $611 Billion.

A lot of people have been displaying what that much money can buy. Among the more noteworthy statistics is one from Boston.com, stating:

"According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth.

At the upper range of those estimates, the $611 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world's poor for seven years."

Startling.

But I am after a different prey, namely alternative energy.

Time and time again, the energy industry and their fronts in legislature state that alternative energy is all well and good, but it is simply too expensive on anything but a very small scale. Electric cars and hydrogen power are too much of a leap, and it would cost too much to start converting the infrastructure to such a system.

How far would $611 Billion go, I wonder?

I am so disgusted with the state of affairs, it takes a real effort of will to write anything but snarling, rabid, explosive accusations here. The fact that we are evidently willing to write a blank check to bomb a relatively small patch of ground, yet unwilling to invest in our own education, healthcare, and wellbeing is truly maddening. Is there anything that I'm leaving out?

Now see this, it will cheer you up:


I'm serious about moving, by the way, if things get too far out of hand, if they haven't already.

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