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What could $456 Billion Buy...Besides a War  
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According to the National Priorities Project that tracks public spending, the Iraq war may total $456 Billion. The question is, what else could that money have been spent on. What do you think?

	2,949 Newton North High Schools: The most expensive high school in Massachusetts, at $154.6 million, Newton North High School could be replicated almost 3,000 times.
	30 Big Digs: At almost $15 billion, Boston's Central Artery project has been held up as the nation's most expensive public works project. Now multiply that by 30.
	Free gas for everybody for 1.2 years: US drivers consume approximately 384.7 million gallons of gasoline a day. Retail prices averaged $2.64 a gallon in 2006.
	Or go green (with ethanol): With just one-sixth of the US money targeted for the Iraq war, all cars in America could be converted to ethanol. Converting the 136,568,083 registered cars in the United States to ethanol (conversion kits at $500) would cost $68.2 billion.
	14.5 million years through Harvard (44 million at UMass): At published rates for next year, $456 billion translates into 14.5 million free rides for a year at Harvard; 44 million at UMass.
	Medicare benefits for one year: In fiscal 2008, Medicare benefits will total $454 billion, according to a Heritage Foundation summary.
	A LONG-term contract: The Red Sox and Daisuke Matsuzaka agreed on a six-year, $52 million contract. The war cost could be enough to have Dice-K mania for another 52,615 years at this year's rate.
	Need more perspective? According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth. $456 billion could have fed and educated the world's poor for five and a half years.

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Source: Boston.com

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