Comments on: Maybe You Should’ve Been Wary a Bit Sooner, Mitch? http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/06/22/maybe-you-shouldve-been-wary-a-bit-sooner-mitch/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:33:20 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Teddy Partridge http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/06/22/maybe-you-shouldve-been-wary-a-bit-sooner-mitch/#comment-28795 Teddy Partridge Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:45:09 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/06/22/maybe-you-shouldve-been-wary-a-bit-sooner-mitch/#comment-28795 <p>Yup.</p> Yup.

]]> By: puppethead http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/06/22/maybe-you-shouldve-been-wary-a-bit-sooner-mitch/#comment-28792 puppethead Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:53:00 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/06/22/maybe-you-shouldve-been-wary-a-bit-sooner-mitch/#comment-28792 <p>There’s a lot of innumeracy involved in this health care debate, I wish someone would clarify things. When different magnitudes and time periods are used the numerical comparisons become incomprehensible and useless. Here’s my start on normalizing the numbers:</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2009/02/obama-dod-budge.html" rel="nofollow">DOD Budget</a>, per every two years: $1000 billion</p> <p><a href="http://costofwar.com/" rel="nofollow">War cost</a>, per every two years: $216 billion</p> <p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123880278764488701.html" rel="nofollow">TARP cost</a>, per every two years: $750 billion</p> <p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/21/senators-spar-public-health-care-plan/" rel="nofollow">Public Option cost, </a> per every two years: $200-$300 billion</p> <p>So we can spend (borrow, actually) unlimited money for war and Wall Street, but helping Americans be healthy and productive is out of reach.</p> There’s a lot of innumeracy involved in this health care debate, I wish someone would clarify things. When different magnitudes and time periods are used the numerical comparisons become incomprehensible and useless. Here’s my start on normalizing the numbers:

DOD Budget, per every two years: $1000 billion

War cost, per every two years: $216 billion

TARP cost, per every two years: $750 billion

Public Option cost, per every two years: $200-$300 billion

So we can spend (borrow, actually) unlimited money for war and Wall Street, but helping Americans be healthy and productive is out of reach.

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