It Cost 39 cents to feed a honeless person a hot meal at Thansgiving. A virual feast for them.

It cost less than $500 to treat all the usual bumps and bruses, a stitch, a cast for a child.

It cost $4,000 to $6,000 per student per year for k-12 in America with only 15% going to the students consumption.

It costs about $9,000 a year to attend college.

It costs about $16,000 for a cheap new car.

It costs $26,000 a year to keep a prisoner in jail.

It costs about $200,000 for a standard 3 bed room 2 bath house in America (made out of fiberboard, cardboard, some fir 2x4's and a lot of Oil based products.
Over half of this price is fees, permits, labor, profit, and add on middle man hikes, and transportation.

Mt. St. Helens is the most monitored Volcano in the world.
It costs $2,000,000 to monitor it for a year and deleivers very, very must knowledge, jobs, entertainment, vactions, and all the spectical of nature. Kids by the thousands visit it every year. Until you have seen a Volcano go off, you aint seen nothin'.

The 200 most dangerous Volcanos in the world are not monitored at all. The cost of the Iraq war could have monitoered them all for a 100 years.

A High school cost a few million dollars and lasts for over 40 years.

A fighter jet costs 50 to 70 million dollars and lasts about a decade.

All of the poor of Oregon could have health insurance for about 14 million dollars.
One Senatoral race in Colorado is costing 14 million dollars. The canidates are Coors Beer vs. An old Cowboy.
Colorado has had the population increse by 30% over the last decade and now has more money (to steal), more electoral votes (to perseude), more beer drinker (to fool).

The United States Govenment is 6-7 trillion dollars in debt. That' 6,000,000,000,000.
There is no Social Security account except for a cabinet in a corner of a fedeal building three drawers high filled with IOU's to the public usually in the amount of 11.3 billion dollars. Folder after folder of stacks of IOU's of 11.3 billion dollars.

The total worth of the American economy is about 17 trillion dollars and is mostly owned by foreign investors.

Forutatly, it costs almost nothing to be happy.

Darwin