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[pmb]

Y'know, we could have just given every Iraqi citizen $37 336.58 and we'd still be ahead by 3,000 american lives and 500,000 iraqi lives. A trillion is a very large number. I bet that, for a flat rate of 37k per capita, we could have gotten the entire Iraqi army to overthrow Saddam all on their own.

Or, as an alternate view, you and I and everyone we know in this country has paid or will pay 4,000 dollars each for this useless war.

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I think if we gave each Iraqi 37K we'd have to figure out which ones had already gotten it...and keep them from killing each other just after they'd gotten the money...and lots of other logistical difficulties.

Plus, there'd be at least a hundred hour debate in the Senate about what currency to give it to them in...and all sorts of other stuff. =)

As for the trade deficit, this is why I hemmed and hawed about macroeconomic theory, because I'm really not sure that anyone understands macroeconomic theory, or that the correlations they've made hold up beyond the limited examples they found them in. *shrug*