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According to the Cost of War counter, we are currently spending $3,951 per second to… uh… wait, what are we doing in Iraq this week? Oh, yeah. JACK SHIT, that’s what.
Check my math if you like. The site lists a figure of $341.4 million per day. There are (24 hrs/day * 60 mins/hr * 60 secs/min) = 86,400 seconds in a day. $341,400,000/day divided by 86,400 secs/day = $3,951.39/second.
(Amusingly, the JavaScript required to display the money counter is taking about 25-30% of one of my CPUs.)
I was prompted to look this up by an 8th-grader on the bus this morning who was telling his buddy about an imprisoned illegal immigrant whose health care was costing the county $25,000 a month. I wish I’d had this number handy half an hour ago; in the time it would have taken me to repeat it, we’d have racked up $25k and then some.