A Few Fun Facts

Thought you might enjoy a few numbers:

War Cost in 2008 Dollars*

Revolutionary War $1.8 billion
War of 1812 $1.2 billion
Mexican-American War $1.8 billion
Civil War: Union $45.2 billion
Civil War: Confederacy $15.2 billion
Spanish-American War $6.8 billion
World War I $253 billion
World War II $4.1 trillion
Korean War $320 billion
Vietnam War $686 billion
First Gulf War $96 billion
Iraq + Afghanistan $859 billion+* (ongoing)

LBJ's War on Poverty 1965-2000 $8.29 trillion†

Obama's 2010 Budget $3.6 trillion

Total Cost 2008 Bailouts $7.8 trillion§

Obama's Stimulus Package $3.7 trillion••
Obama's Modified 2009 Budget $3.94 trillion††

Obama's 2010 Budget $3.66 trillion††

*CRS Report for Congress

†The Heritage Foundation

§New York Times
••The Heritage Foundation

††NPR

You do the math. Boy has that War on Poverty worked! What it really needs is...more money.

More numbers:

Length of Obama's 2010 Budget 141 pages§§

Stimulus addition to tax code 344 pages•••

US Tax Code 70,000+ pages†††

Length of Constitution 10 pages, 18 w/ amendments

§§2010 Budget

***The Schulzke Brief

†††bNet

If only the Constitution was worthy of  70,000+ pages, or at least 141 pages...