Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Perspective

Bigger than all of these combined:

• Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion
• Louisiana Purchase: Cost: $15 million, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $217 billion
• Race to the Moon: Cost: $36.4 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $237 billion
• S&L Crisis: Cost: $153 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $256 billion
• Korean War: Cost: $54 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $454 billion
• The New Deal: Cost: $32 billion (Est), Inflation Adjusted Cost: $500 billion (Est)
• Invasion of Iraq: Cost: $551b, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $597 billion
• Vietnam War: Cost: $111 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $698 billion
• NASA: Cost: $416.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $851.2 billion

TOTAL: $3.92 trillion


Bloomberg says it is more like $8T. I will now vomit in my mouth. We are getting so hosed.

6 comments:

Bubba the Hutt said...

I feel like I'm married to the government. She keeps spending my money even though I ask her not too.

I hope she doesn't read this or I am so hosed.

Denise said...

You should get that reflux checked out. You have enough digestive probs without adding another.

daniel said...

at least the government is good in bed.

oh wait...

liz said...

i think i read somewhere there is a ban on using the term 'vomit in my mouth'. i think it's like the on-line version of No Fear T-shirts.

sorry to be the one to break it you, but you know my place in pop culture and yours is in politics. We keep each other honest that way.

PassTheChips said...

So using "vomit in my mouth" is like saying, "rad"?

Thanks for the heads up.

liz said...

basically, mike, you are so rad i want to vomit in my mouth.