$87,000,000,000.00

Thursday 23 October 2003

It’s hard to imagine what 87 Billion US Dollars is. That’s the amount the US government plans to spend to finish a mission of securing peace and eliminating terrorist threats in Iraq and Afghanistan

Here’s a web page that gives scale to this number.

Six dollars

It reminds me of something I pointed out last year.

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