<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Greens, labor leaders, and economists call for $900 billion recovery plan]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by naught101 http://www.grist.org/article/whats-900-billion-between-friends/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:14:25 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/whats-900-billion-between-friends/1 in relative terms...

Just for anyone else who wanted to put this in perspective, Wikipedia says that the US economy "was estimated as $13.8 trillion in 2007".

In other words, this $900 billion is about 6% of the total economy (same as the economic bailout package), and between 1/3 and 1/2 of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sounds like a good idea to me...

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]]> in relative terms...

Just for anyone else who wanted to put this in perspective, Wikipedia says that the US economy "was estimated as $13.8 trillion in 2007".

In other words, this $900 billion is about 6% of the total economy (same as the economic bailout package), and between 1/3 and 1/2 of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sounds like a good idea to me...

check out http://www.envirowiki.info, the knowledge database for environmentalists and activists.

]]> Comment #2 by mwildfire http://www.grist.org/article/whats-900-billion-between-friends/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:36:59 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/whats-900-billion-between-friends/2 no prob

it's a lot of money but if we just cut off the Pentagon, we'll have plenty for constructive pirposes, and get double bang for our buck because every dollar the Pentagon doesn't get is less orphans, widows, destroyed buildings, etc.

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it's a lot of money but if we just cut off the Pentagon, we'll have plenty for constructive pirposes, and get double bang for our buck because every dollar the Pentagon doesn't get is less orphans, widows, destroyed buildings, etc.

]]> Comment #3 by JMG http://www.grist.org/article/whats-900-billion-between-friends/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:17:29 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/whats-900-billion-between-friends/3 Nice warning

WAPO has a nice warning that pouring lots of cement -- in addition to being terrible for the climate -- is probably a poor recovery strategy.

http://is.gd/b1xk

This is even before we consider that if all we get is more auto infrastructure, we'll end up worse off than we are now -- another day older, deeper in debt, importing more oil ...

The 5% Project Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.

]]> Nice warning

WAPO has a nice warning that pouring lots of cement -- in addition to being terrible for the climate -- is probably a poor recovery strategy.

http://is.gd/b1xk

This is even before we consider that if all we get is more auto infrastructure, we'll end up worse off than we are now -- another day older, deeper in debt, importing more oil ...

The 5% Project Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.

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