$87,000,000,000,00

Published on: October 11th, 2003
Modified on: October 11th, 2003
A Little Perspective on $87 billion. or "A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon it starts to add up to some real money." On September 7th, 2003, President Bush announced on national television that he was asking the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. But $87 billion is an impossibly high number for anyone to visualize. Let's have a look....
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