Better use for our money, first thread!! [View All]

A friend suggested I make this my first thread; I made a flier of the following information and have been posting it around town, have to keep checking the bulletin boards as they keep disappearing!! I actually changed the information from the site from a one year coverage of 1.6 billion for my district for each of the past five years by diving the amounts given by five; the figures are stil quite impressive to me! I myself don't care about additional cops or inspectors, but the folks in the area like to feel "safe" ...Anyway, our priorities need to be adjusted drastically! And to stop the flow of folks into abject poverty, we need to change where the money goes!! contact your representatives about this...I'll add a contact info link here on edit.
https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

LOCAL COSTS OF IRAQ

Taxpayers in Congressional District 20 (Gillibrand) have paid $1.6 billion for the Iraq War thus far. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided for each of the past five years:


1,794 Affordable Housing Units OR (yes, in my little district for EACH year!!)
3,656 School Teachers (I think more)OR
58,215 People with Health Care OR
591,010 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
6,093 Public Safety Officers OR
51,514 Scholarships for University Students OR
17 New Elementary Schools OR
110,312 Children with Health Care OR
35,966 Head Start Places for Children OR
4,744 Port Container Inspectors

you could also have all the above for EACH divided equally thus:

179 new homes AND
367 teachers AND
5,821 People with health care AND
59,101 homes with renewable electricity AND
609 Public Safety Officers AND
5,151 Scholarships for University Students AND
2 New Elementary Schools AND
11,031 Children with health care AND
3,597 Head Start places for children AND
474 Port Container Inspectors AND

Just think of how much lower your property and school taxes could be!

The above was extrapolated from data from the National Priorities Project.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/publications/local_cost_of_the_iraq_war_through_fy2007