Need factoid for peace rally sign: Iraq War $100,000 a min, $? a day

[roseBudd]

$6 billion a month. I can't find the number for perday. I guess if I was good at math I would divide 30/6,000,000,000?

[acmejack]

1. $144,000,000/Day

24x60x100,000=144M

[jimshoes]

2. There are some new figures coming out

Might as well use them although I think they include Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x689595

[welshTerrier2]

3. here's a "math" factoid ...

perhaps a better "math sign" would be something like:

2300+ US Deaths / 1096 days = 2+ Dead Americans everyday

If you support the war, please volunteer to fight it!!

[riona]

4. facts on this site

http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

[welshTerrier2]

5. i think the numbers are way too low ...

check out this article:

source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0317-01.htm

U.S. military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan will average 44 percent more in the current fiscal year than in fiscal 2005, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service said.

Spending will rise to $9.8 billion a month from the $6.8 billion a month the Pentagon said it spent last year, the research service said. The group's March 10 report cites "substantial'' expenses to replace or repair damaged weapons, aircraft, vehicles, radios and spare parts.

and this one:

source: http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2006/1/5/11510/30624

The Cost of The War

Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard budget expert Linda Bilmes plan to present this week a paper estimating the cost of the Iraq War at between $1-2 trillion. This is far higher than earlier estimates of $100-200 billion.

Here is their statement:

NEW STUDY SUGGESTS ECONOMIC COST OF IRAQ WAR MUCH LARGER THAN PREVIOUSLY RECOGNIZED

A new study by two leading academic experts suggests that the costs of the Iraq war will be substantially higher than previously reckoned. In a paper presented to this week’s Allied Social Sciences Association annual meeting in Boston MA., Harvard budget expert Linda Bilmes and Columbia University Professor and Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz calculate that the war is likely to cost the United States a minimum of nearly one trillion dollars and potentially over $2 trillion. <skip>

The study expands on traditional budgetary estimates by including costs such as lifetime disability and health care for the over 16,000 injured, one fifth of whom have serious brain or spinal injuries. It then goes on to analyze the costs to the economy, including the economic value of lives lost and the impact of factors such as higher oil prices that can be partly attributed to the conflict in Iraq. The paper also calculates the impact on the economy if a proportion of the money spent on the Iraq war were spent in other ways, including on investments in the United States.

[Neil Lisst]

6. 144 million a day is your best way of saying it

dollars per minute is too minute, which implicitly begs the reader to do more math

billions are so large as to lack understanding

But millions are just right. Now readers can see that we are spending the amount of one of those giantic lotteries someone in the US wins once a month. Now readers can think DAMN, THAT COULD BE OUR MONEY!!

[PBass]

7. I just finished reading that it was 200 million per day.

I don't have a link for you, though.

That equals 1.4 Billion per week, and 5.6 billion a month.

My math skills aren't very good though...

[Neil Lisst]

9. that works, too

I don't know what the official number is, but putting it in hundreds of millions a day is the most effective way to communicate the costs to those who look at posters.

It changes monthly, anyway, but 200 mil per day sounds good,too.

[DuaneBidoux]

8. Is this even possible?! Are you sure you numbers are right?