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August 26, 2004
A Billboard Worth Reading
From CNN/Reuters:
A giant clock ticking the cost of the war in Iraq lit up in Times Square Wednesday, making its debut by flashing $134.5 billion.
The amount on the clock will grow at a rate of $177 million a day, $7.4 million an hour and $122,820 per minute, said the advocacy group Project Billboard which put it up.
Naturally, the "party of fiscal responsibilty" will immediately argue that this is the price we must pay for freedom and dismiss the billboard as nothing but a partisan attack. That it is, being funded by a group headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta. That doesn't change the facts that the billboard is proclaiming, however.
Now if we could just get billboards to show the minute-by-minute cost of welfare, Medicare, farm subsidies, the CIA, the FBI, Social Security, the Department of Education, HUD, and so on, ad nauseam, we'd really be getting somewhere.
Posted by Mike Tennant at August 26, 2004 11:44 AM