That’s the current spending rate in Iraq.   That’s $12.5 Billion per month.

A Congressional study by the Joint Economic Committee found that the sums spent on the Iraq war each day could:

• enroll an additional 58,000 children in Head Start, OR
• give Pell Grants to 153,000 students to attend college.
• Or if we’re sure we want to invest in security, then a day’s Iraq spending would finance another 11,000 border patrol agents or 9,000 police officers.

Imagine the possibilities. We could hire more police and border patrol agents, expand Head Start and rehabilitate America’s image in the world by underwriting a global drive to slash maternal mortality, eradicate malaria and deworm every child in Africa.

All that would consume less than one month’s spending on the Iraq war.  Experts predict that the eventual total cost of the war will be about $3 trillion. For a family of five, that amounts to a bill of almost $50,000.   Are you getting your money’s worth?