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the war in iraq has cost orange county (via taxes) 1.35 BILLION dollars.
this works out to about $1,000 per citizen.
instead we could have built over TWELVE THOUSAND units of affordable rental housing.
when i read this in the weekly (which was just confirmed with some online scouting), i cried. sitting in einstein eating a bagel on my lunch break, i cried. we could have entirely eradicated homelessness in the entire fucking county...which would have provided housing to many of the people who make our city's tourist economy possible by cleaning the convention center and serving fries at disney and otherwise doing the shit jobs that make our standard of living so damn grand. instead (and regardless of how you feel about the war) kids my age are getting shot so they can pay to go to college.
check out the cost of war calculator for yourself.
www.costofwar.com
get pissed, friends. i am.
this works out to about $1,000 per citizen.
instead we could have built over TWELVE THOUSAND units of affordable rental housing.
when i read this in the weekly (which was just confirmed with some online scouting), i cried. sitting in einstein eating a bagel on my lunch break, i cried. we could have entirely eradicated homelessness in the entire fucking county...which would have provided housing to many of the people who make our city's tourist economy possible by cleaning the convention center and serving fries at disney and otherwise doing the shit jobs that make our standard of living so damn grand. instead (and regardless of how you feel about the war) kids my age are getting shot so they can pay to go to college.
check out the cost of war calculator for yourself.
www.costofwar.com
get pissed, friends. i am.