Hello, delegates to the RNC! Welcome to New York. While touring the theater district, make sure to stop by and take a peek at exactly how much your main man has cost our country!
According to an
AP report currently appearing on the S.F. Chronicle's Web site:
Two groups put up a giant digital clock to tick off the cost of the Iraq war, days before the Republican National Convention gets going less than a mile away.
The clock was unveiled Wednesday by the advocacy group Project Billboard and the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank headed by John Podesta, former President Clinton's chief of staff.
Organizers calculated the war's cost as of Wednesday at $134.5 billion and are adding $177 million per day, which comes to $7.4 million per hour or $122,820 per minute.
Right there on the corner of Broadway and 47th Street — a few blocks away from the convention, unfortunately, but in a nice spot with plenty of foot and street traffic.
And hey, this quote sure does sound familiar.
The two groups said the money could have been spent on projects "to make Americans safer at home and stronger abroad," including adding two new divisions to the Army, hiring 100,000 more police officers and undertaking significant improvements to safeguard ports.
Safer at home and stronger abroad. Hmm. Where have I heard that before?
Gotta love subliminal campaigning.