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February 13, 2004

Attention All New Yorkers, Part 2

Attention everyone else: Get the cost of War in Iraq affects your state from The National Priorities Project.

The President recently submitted a request to Congress for $87 billion of taxpayers’ money for war and occupation. If Congress accepts this request, total funds allocated to war, occupation of other countries and reconstruction abroad will be well over $200 billion since the war on terrorism began. The vast majority of this money has been devoted to a single political project: invading and occupying Iraq.

Invading and Occupying Iraq
The Impact on New York
Grassroots Factsheet Volume 6, Issue 4, 2003

Cost of War to New York
The $87 billion in additional war spending will cost New York’s taxpayers $7.4 billion. If that money were spent on other priorities in New York, it could pay for:
$1.5 billion for school construction resulting in 36,525 new jobs, AND
7,232 new affordable housing units, creating 17,704 new jobs, AND
$1.3 billion for local and state roads and
bridges, creating 28,471 new jobs, AND
21,413 new firefighters, AND
health care coverage for 203,977 people.

Consider this…
$ The estimates for rebuilding Iraq over the next few years range from the Bush Administration’s conservative $50 billion to
hundreds of billions of dollars.
$ The deficit will be close to $500 billion this fiscal year, an astonishing reversal from a $127 billion surplus as recently as
2001. The level of occupation and war spending leaves a stark choice: more cuts in local programs such as education and housing; raising taxes; or risking a fiscal crisis of unprecedented proportions.
$ Halliburton, the oil well services and equipment company whose last CEO was Vice President Cheney, was handed $1.7 billion in contracts from the federal government for reconstruction in Iraq, and is likely to garner hundreds of millions more. These contracts were dispensed without any other businesses, American or otherwise, having a chance to bid on them.
$ In addition to the tragic loss of life and permanent disabilities suffered, there are uncounted costs to the businesses, communities and households reliant on reservists as their term of duty is extended far beyond any projection.
? The American occupying forces, after months in Iraq, have still not found any weapons of mass destruction.

Posted by P6 at February 13, 2004 02:58 PM
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P6, I can honestly see why Randall Robinson left. I cannot honestly say that the same thought does not cross my mind almost daily now.

Posted by Kamau at February 15, 2004 09:21 AM