From Market Watch on NPR this week, some "facts" about money:
The 87 Billion Dollars Bush says he "needs" to continue the stuggle in Iraq is almost exactly enough money to give every man woman and child in the United States of America $300 each. Interestingly, the same amount of money that Bush decided to refund back to everyone a few years back, if you recall (which you don't, because apparently you were too busy watching Terminator).
Also, the money spent in the Iraq debacle thus far, along with the $87 billion proposed, apparently calculates out to approximately $265,000 a minute as this "war" drags on.
I'm not sure of the math they used to figure that but the numbers are staggering nonetheless.
$265,000
A
MINUTE.
That's gotta be about $2 million just while I sit here and type this.