The $3 Trillion Shopping Spree

The cost of the Iraq War is a grave issue. We are committed to spreading awareness about the devastating financial toll the war is taking on each and every one of us, let alone our economy.

$3 trillion. That is what Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimates the war will cost our country. Make no mistake, this $3 trillion bill is crippling our economy and causing our Iraq recession. To put this colossal amount of cash into perspective, we've designed a game to help people really understand what $3 trillion dollars can buy.

Get ready to go on a 3 Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree!

"Just counting the zeroes on the $3 trillion price tag of the Iraq War is enough to induce hyperventilation. But what does $3 trillion really mean? It's difficult even to comprehend a number that big. Well, try filling your shopping cart with what the cost of the Iraq War could buy: healthcare for every American? A new home for every subprime borrower now facing foreclosure? An Ivy League university? You haven't even gotten started." -- Joseph Stiglitz

When the war was already hurting our economy two years ago, President Bush announced that Americans should go shopping -- a brilliant plan to remedy our ailing economy. So follow the president's advice in this virtual shopping bonanza and rack up a $3 trillion tab like he has in real life. All you have to do is stroll down through our online store, add items to your cart for yourself or friends, and check out. It's just that easy!

This "game" is designed to build further awareness, and we need your help to make that happen, just as you have done on previous successful campaigns from FOX Attacks to the War on Greed to Hurricane Katrina recovery. Please buy gifts for your all your friends and loved ones, and send them emails to let them know you've found better ways to spend our nation's money than the president. We need to help Americans understand the war's economic toll.

Comments

[cynara]

Let me try - For 3 trillion dollars we could have universal health care, solid roads and other infrastructure, and a decent education for our children. And to put a frivolous, senseless war above these REAL priorities is a complete crime.

[CitizenE]

I'm bitter about it; bitter what it means to my daughters and granddaughter. As someone who never thought of Jesus as God, someone who thinks evolution is one cool, far out and awesome divine strategy, experience has taught me not to expect much from my government when it comes to my religious beliefs or lack thereof, nor do I given my "live by the sword, die by the sword," philosophy have many problems discerning the difference between a government's right to arm it's national guard for times of emergency and my right to have an ak47. As the son of an immigrant, I also can't quite bring myself to project any bitterness toward immigrants, even the ones who want to sneak in to provide a better way of life for their families. No I am bitter about how people care more about a few misspoken words than they do about all that money--what it might mean in education, health care, environmental responsibility, heck, national security against nutcases determined to kill people randomly for some cause or their own misbegotten egos--all down the toilet in Iraq, our national treasury, our good standing among nations, my children and their children's future.