Brother, Can You Spare $7.1 Billion?

by: Steven Hart

Fri Sep 28, 2007 at 09:07:24 AM EDT

So let us thank the Center for America Progress for providing this handy interactive map that allows the taxpayers of each state to determine the size of their financial contribution to this blood-drenched fiasco, and how much more money Bush and the Republicans wish to pour down the rathole.

For example, as a resident of the Garden State, I can point to $20.8 billion already vampirized from the state by George's little project, with another $7.1 billion set to follow it while our elected representatives mobilize for the important work of condemning advertisements from MoveOn.org.

So by all means, click on the map and contemplate your share of the tab. You might want to wait until after lunch, however. What you see is apt to spoil your appetite for the remainder of the weekend.

Cross posted at The Opinion Mill.