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December 30, 2004

BobHarris on what $35 million will buy you

Bob Harris offers more perspective

What's $35 million?

The amount it takes to fix up one park in Pittsburgh.

It's exactly one new school in Montclair, New Jersey.

It's what Dick Cheney put in his own back pocket by ditching his Halliburton stock.

And it's one four-thousandth of what the U.S. has spent invading and occupying Iraq.

Or as Robert Silvey points out in the link below, "Or the cost of the Iraq war every 4 hours and 43 minutes."

Bob Harris has more - read the rest here.

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