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Report: Cost of War $3.7 Billion for OR...and Counting

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Friday, August 17, 2007   

The Iraq War is ringing up a pretty expensive price tag in Oregon. A new report from the USAction Education Fund shows Oregon taxpayers are picking up almost $4 billion of the tab. Kari Coch with Oregon Action’s Iraq War Coalition says that's money sorely needed here at home for things like health care, schools, and roads.

"Our basic community needs are being cut on every level. Not only are we not getting this money being put back into our communities, money is being taken out of taxpayer pockets and it's all coming out of existing programs."

The war tab nationally is $456 billion, growing by $720 million a day. Congress has recently approved more investment in domestic programs and President Bush has threatened to veto, or shut down government if Congress overrides his budget proposal.

Coch explains that at a teach-in on Saturday, they want to show both the human and economic costs of the war.

"Not only is it soldiers who are being killed, but also it’s about the fact that money is being taken out of health care, that soldiers are coming back in need of mental health and having veterans needs and those can’t be met because we don’t have the resources in our communities."

The People of Color Against the War teach in is Sat. Aug. 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Andrews Church on NE Alberta and 8th in Portland. The report is titled Getting U.S. Back on Track. It was researched and funded by the USAction Education Fund.


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