Costs of Shock & Atrocity

When that good Democrat, election-frauding SF "mayor" Willie Brown, cries poor after stealing our tax dollars to line his pocket, tell him to send the bill for the police to the White House, where they are spending billions of tax dollars to murder the Iraqi people for oil. Below is a list of some of the military expenses and the domestic need equivalents.

This information is from the SF Chronicle, 3/22/03, which obtained its information from the Associated Press and the Federation of American Scientists. For more such information and where all our federal tax dollars go, see:
http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm

$1.1 billion each for B-2 Spirit
This is a multi-role heavy stealth bomber.
This is a nuclear, conventional and precision ordinance.

$122 million each for F-117A Nighthawk.
This is a stealth fighter plane.

$53.4 million each for B-52 Stratofortress.
This is a heavy bomber.

$21,000 each for Joint Direct Attack Munition.
This is a "smart" bomb which looks like a missile.
This is used with 1,000 & 2,000 pound bombs and 2,000 pound "bunker busters."

$600,000 each for a Tomahawk Land Attack
Thi is a long-range, naval vessel launched cruise missile.
This is 1,000 pounds, 166 bomblets.

$600,000 each for a AGM-86C air-launched cruise missile.
This is 2,000-3,000 pounds.

$145,600 each for a bomb that penetrates 100 feet of earh or 20 feet of concrete.
This is 1,000 pounds high exposive, 166 bomblets.

$27,318 each for a BLU-28 Daisy cutter.
This is 1,000 pounds high explosive consisting of 166 bomblets.

From:
http://www.warresisters.org/piechart.htm
11 Blankets for refugees $100 11 hand grenades

Enroll 2 children in Head Start $14,000 1 cluster bomb

2 home health aides for disabled elderly $40,000 1 Hellfire missile

Associate Degree training for 29 RNs $145,600 1 Bunker-buster guided bomb

Rent subsidies for 1,000 families $586,000 1,000 M-16 Rifles

Annual salary/benefits for 15 RNs $763,000 1 minute war on Iraq

Improve, repair, modernize 20 schools $46 million 1 hour war on Iraq

WIC program nutrition for 200,000 families $130 million 7 unmanned Predator drones

Eradicate polio worldwide $275 million 3 tests of missile defense system

Best vaccinations for 10 million children worldwide $350 million 6 Trident II missiles

Childcare for 68,000 needy children $413 million Amphibious Warfare Landing Ship Program

7,000 units of affordable housing $494 million 1 year military aid to Colombia

Prevent cuts to education programs (FY2003) $1.1 billion 1 day of war on Iraq

Minimum support to save Amtrak train service $1.2 billion 2 months U.S. war force in Afghanistan

Annual salary/benefits for 38,000 elementary teachers $2.1 billion 1 Stealth bomber

Double federal funding for mass transit $12 billion 1 year cost of war in Afghanistan (2001/2002)

Healthcare coverage for 7 million children $16 billion 1 year nuclear weapons program

Save 11 million lives worldwide fighting infectious diseases $38 billion 1 month U.S. current military spending