[dogbyte12]

$87 billion is over $300 for every man woman and child in the country. I wonder when parents should break the news to their young children that they are going to work an extra few years to pay for this.

$87 billion here, $87 billion there, and you are starting to talk about real money.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

over $300 for every man woman and child in the country. I wonder when parents should break the news to their young children that they are going to work an extra few years to pay for this

A few extra years for $300? Man, I'd heard that employers were getting stingy about pay, but I never thought it had gotten that bad.

[jwalsh07]

$87 billion is over $300 for every man woman and child in the country. I wonder when parents should break the news to their young children that they are going to work an extra few years to pay for this.

Money well spent. Of course we can just adopt the policy of the past two decades, nest and absorb whatever else the jihadists have in mind for us and then pay the bills at their leisure.

[edchambers]

$87 billion is over $300 for every man woman and child in the country. I wonder when parents should break the news to their young children that they are going to work an extra few years to pay for this.

$300? you mean we might have to give up a week or twos pay to win the war.I'VE SAID IT BEFORE AND I'LL KEEP SAYING IT UNTIL IT SINKS IN. WHEN YOU GO TO WAR YOU DONT WORRY ABOUT HOW MUCH IT WILL COST OR HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE. YOU SHOULD ONLY BE CONCERNED WITH WINNING.BECAUSE WINNING IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATERS.

Would all you accuntants out there like to estimate the cost of LOSING

[cookcounty]

Since its become fashionable to always put spending (or tax cuts) in terms of 10-year increments, this is probably $8.7b / year. Don't count on any "news professionals" to clarify this.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"$87 billion is over $300 for every man woman and child in the country."

You know what's an even more outrageous figure?

Eighty-seven billion dollars is OVER $30 million dollars for each individual murdered on September 11!

What a pant load!

Isn't doggy?

I mean...who the hell is going to pay all that money for dead people!

And why should we?

We're alive!

We have bills.

They don't anymore!

Why should you have to shoulder any financial responsibility for that?

Let their kids pay for revenge!

At least those old enough to get a job and chase down the bad men who killed mommy and daddy when they went to work.

Better yet...let everyone keep those extra $300 hundred dollars so that they can buy an extra #6 combo (superzised) at Mickey Dee's every week (they're about $6.00/ea here in SoFla) and screw trying to beat the people trying beat us...WE NEED OUR EXTRA MICKEY DEE'S COMBINATION A WEEK MORE THAN WE NEED TO CONDUCT A WAR ON PEOPLE THAT KILL NEW YORKERS AT WORK!

Right dogbyte?

[Mo1]

$87 billion is over $300 for every man woman and child in the country. I wonder when parents should break the news to their young children that they are going to work an extra few years to pay for this.

Hmmm .. let's see .. work a few more years or be killed by terrorists

Hmmmmm ... which one should I pick??