Sunday, June 12, 2011

For the cost of the Busch tax cuts, we could've had...

...any one of the following:

- Give 122.7 Million Low-Income Children Health Care Every Year For Ten Years
- Give 49.2 Million Low-Income People Access To Healthcare Every Year For Ten Years
- Provide 43.1 Million Students With Pell Grants Worth $5,500 Every Year For Ten Years
- Provide 31.5 Million Head Start Slots For Children Every Year For Ten Years
- Provide VA Care For 30.7 Million Military Veterans Every Year For Ten Years
- Provide 30.4 Million Scholarships For University Students Every Year For Ten Years
- Hire 4.19 Million Firefighters Every Year For Ten Years
- Hire 3.67 Million Elementary School Teachers Every Year For Ten Years
- Hire 3.6 Million Police Officers Every Year For Ten Years
- Retrofit 144.6 Million Households For Wind Power Every Year For Ten Years
- Retrofit 54.2 Million Households For Solar Photovoltaic Energy Every Year For Ten Years

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Instead, we gave wealthy folks big tax cuts and middle income folks tiny tax cuts. God Bless America, 'cuz we need it.