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March 17, 2007
NHTSA’S BUDGET: AN IRAQ WAR COST COMMENT
An ABC news commentary on the Bush budget, “Who's Counting: How Iraq Trillion Could Have Been Spent,” offered these remarks in its in-depth analysis of budget figures:
“The price tag for the Iraq War is now estimated at $700 billion in direct costs and perhaps twice that much when indirect expenditures are included… One last and rather tiny governmental monetary unit functions almost as spare change and has the ungainly acronym NHTSA. It stands for the annual budget of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, which is approximately $670 million, or about two-thirds of $1 billion. The Iraq War has cost about 1,500 NHTSA's, several of which could probably have reduced the more than 40,000 Americans killed annually on our roads.”
Posted by MVHAP at March 17, 2007 02:13 PM