Count to 20.

I invite everyone to just watch the cost of the Iraq occupation counter on the left side of my blog while they count to 20. When you see how much money that is just sit back and think about what our country could be doing with that money.

1. Hire more teachers to lower teacher to pupil rates in our schools.
2. Pay the teachers we have better.
3. Pay for the college education of any American that wants to attend college.
4. Make sure no American goes without healthcare.
5. Invest in renewable energy to allow America to be energy independent.
6. Invest in renewable energy to lower our CO2 emissions.

feel free to add your own to the list

what would Republicans do with this money if they didn't want to stay the course?

1. Build 700 miles of fence along a border that is 1951 miles long.
2. Give oil companies who are making record profits billions of dollars in subsidies to drill in land that every American owns.
3. Give no bid contracts to friends of the vice-president to rebuild New Orleans which they then sub-contract and still make a hefty profit. (and the job still does not get done)
4. Eliminate the estate tax on estates over 7 million dollars so their wealthy donors kids never have to work.
5. Buy off journalist to write flattering articles about their legislative agenda
6. Buy voting machines from their supporters to protect their majority and steal election after election after election.
7. Give huge tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% of Americans.

Oh that's right they already did all these things on top of the Iraq war. I forgot every man, woman, and child in America already owes $29,000 thanks to the fiscally responsible leaders of our country.