According to this website, http://costofwar.com, the cost of the Iraq War is a bit over $607 billion at this moment.  How accurate the number is, I haven't a clue.  This website, http://www.nationalpriorities.org/costofwar_home, says that $656.1 billion have allocated to the Iraq War.  Chances are it is somewhere in the low to mid $600 billion range.  That will suffice for the time being.

Think back a few years and recall that anytime President Bush wanted more money for the Iraq War, say, another $150 billion, he was criticized for wasting so much money, for spending so much money, on an "unjustified" war.  What these critics neglected to realize, however, is how those billions of dollars were, for the most part, put to good use.  It bought freedom, the end of oppression, and more rights most Iraqis saw under Saddam's vicious rule.

Now think back a few days and recall another figure, $9.3 trillion.  That is the amount the Congressional Budget Office said Obama's budget plan would create in deficits in the next decade.  You don't have to be a mathematician to realize that $9.3 trillion > $600 some billion.  The Iraq War is a few days over six years old.  If its total cost to date is $650 billion that would calculate out to approximately $108.3 billion a year.  That is a drop in the bucket to even Obama's grand scheme of the "stimulus" scam.  Taking Obama's budget down to a per year cost would make it $930 billion.  Again, you don't have to be a mathematician to see that a yearly cost of $108.3 billion < a yearly cost of $930 billion.

So what is the purpose of this math lesson, you may be asking; that is, if you made it this far through the crunching of humongous numbers.  It isn't hard to remember, as aforementioned, the immense outrage each and every time President Bush wanted more funding for the Iraq War.  Another $100 billion was deemed way too much.  But where is the outrage from the media and all the other critics at the massive amount of money President Obama wishes to spend?  Obama is spending a trillion dollars like it is pocket change.  There is no outrage, however, by the elitists saying that it is wasteful and unnecessary.

I am getting utterly sick and tired of my money be wasted by our new president, and it's only been three months!   At least when President Bush "wasted" my money it was going to buy freedom and opportunity.  Obama is wasting my money on handouts, bogus "research," and rewarding failure.  Obama is seeking to spend more than 8.5 times the cost of the "extraordinarily expensive" Iraq War for much less worthy reasons.  Unfortunately these numbers, like $9.3 trillion, are so massive that I cannot wrap my head around them.  They have no tangible meaning because I have never held $9.3 trillion, much less $1 million.  All I know is that $9.3 trillion is a lot of money, but have no perspective of it and nothing to compare it to.  I am, however, utterly appalled at the lack of outrage that this amount of money should draw from everyone.  It seems soon our money will be worth less than the paper it is printed on.  Hyperinflation is exactly how Hitler rose to power; I hope we are not headed there!

Why is outrage towards money spent and/or wasted so selective?