Boston Legal - No Brain Left Behind

I absolutely love Boston Legal on ABC. It uses a satirical approach to drive home realistic and current issues facing our society. One episode of Boston Legal referred to a list of items that could be paid off with the amount of money being spent on the war in Iraq. Before I continue, let's be clear, I bleed red white and blue and support our troops...but just as every household needs to budget (especially during the holidays), so should our government.

Getting back to the show, I was amazed at the numbers rattled off in the episode and believe David Kelley does his homework to inject factual foundations to the script. So, I looked up some numbers as my old friend David had piqued my curiousity....not only are the war projections astronomical, but the war is costing us 9B per month... http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aairaqwarcost.htm

The costs should be monitored and there should a more visible level of prioritization for the allocation without jeopardizing our troops. The war is projected to cost 1.6 Trillion dollars http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/13/hidden.war.costs/

For just over half the cost of the monthly bill, we could end world hunger for the year...

http://www.borgenproject.org/Iraq_War_Cost.html

If I weren't too busy working for my next check, eating more in one meal than most get in a week, spending time with my healthy family, buying new gadgets to impress my friends, and sitting comfortably in my warm home watching reality tv that is so far from it's title, I guess I might make time to stand up and notice the egregiousness of the situation...I guess it's someone else's problem...right?