By the numbers…

Numbers worth pondering (citations to numbers in bold are linked via the blogpost from which I retrieved this):

"Bush has about 550 days left to finish what he started (whatever that is).
The Operations in Iraq have cost $444,650,000,000.
In the same time, ExxonMobil has made about $141,700,000,000, as of April's first quarter earnings report, and continues to earn about $1,300 per second (that's net income, not total revenue). ExxonMobil holds the record for annual profits (in 2004, 2005, and 2006), and quarterly profits (four times).
In the same time, the national debt has soared from $6,400,000,000,000 to $8,893,125,000,000, an increase of close to $2.5 trillion dollars."

Yet we can't find funding for children's health care, education, public health more generally, etc. etc. etc. If you haven't seen it, or perhaps even if you have, but want to share again, check out The True Majority's "oreo cookie" illustration.

(I'm supposed to be writing an essay on media and the construction of enemies for an upcoming Word&World issue, but I keep finding these bits and pieces on the net that I can't let go of... web-surfing is an all-together too easy form of procrastination!)