Well, dollar wise, JTT, only a few folks will have a clue. Some of the money is part of an existing budget for the Satte Department and a good amount os in the Department of Defenses (War) and then there a $74.9B supplimental budget as the down payment in the war covering only the first 30 days with about $10B doled out to various countries for joining the List of Almost Willing. And then there will be a second supplimental request in about ten days and then one every month until the end of time..........

And, yes, meanwhile tyhe military industrial complex will be in high cotten and America's working class's standard of living will continue to decrease and the services for our poor and elderly will be cut, cut, cut until tens upon millions of our own citizens will die in poverty. Just about every state has all ready reduced its funding for medical and mental health programs for the elderly and needy. And when one considers the cuts that have been made in Social Services since the Clinton "Welfare Reform" legislation, we were looking at underfunded programs that are now getting slashed or eliminated.

One major program that is going is the "Nutrition in Schools" program that insures that inner city kids from poor families get at least one good healthy meal a day.

Yeah, what a waste. And what's even sadder is that it is the American working class and the poor who are the ones deing in Iraq and the way Bush and Co. have it drawn up, they'll get stuck with paying for it, too.

Bobert