I have just devised a simple yet graphic way to bring home to voters of Connecticut the scale of the Iraq war for which Lieberman has been such a cheer-leader....
It is not unreasonable to cost the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at 1 trillion dollars:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
(rather cut-price perhaps compared to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who believes the final figure could run to $2 trillion).
If you had a trillion one dollar bills and laid them side by side, they would cover 4,483 square miles. Or put another way, they would cover 80% of the state of Connecticut.
So if you started from west going east, then about the only places which would not have been buried under dollar bills would be Storrs, Willimantic and New London.
http://travel.yahoo.com/...
Everyone else in the state would be under paper... It is a fairly graphic way to bring home to this rather important group of voters EXACTLY what this war really means in term of treasure spent by Joe.
So Joe - will you be happy to keep spending until all of Connecticut is under paper? It will only take $1.25 trillion. Surely you can dig that extra bit deeper, make that last extra sacrifice on behalf of all current and future Americans. Keep cheering for the war Joe - you'll soon have buried Connecticut!
[calculated on the basis of 8 dollar bills to the square foot, 27,878,400 square feet in a square mile, giving a trillion dollars covering 4,483 sq miles. Connecticut covers 5,544 sq miles and so a trillion dollars would cover 80.8619% of the state.]