{"id":759,"date":"2004-04-29T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T05:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/spending-5-billion-a-month\/"},"modified":"2004-04-29T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T05:06:36","slug":"spending-5-billion-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/spending-5-billion-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"spending $5 billion a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the &#8220;we&#8217;re spending $5 billion a month in iraq&#8221; figure is being thrown around a lot&#8230; and lots of people are thinking about what that money could do&#8230;. but one thing i haven&#8217;t seen yet is what it could do&#8230; in iraq.<\/p>\n<p>according to the cia,  the gdp per capita in 2002 was $2400.  with just under 25 million iraqi citizens (ok, a few less than that now&#8230;) that means the gdp in 2002 was $60 billion.  oddly, that works out to about $5 billion a month.<\/p>\n<p>maybe we should&#8217;ve just called some underemployed enron negotiators to arrange a leveraged buyout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the &#8220;we&#8217;re spending $5 billion a month in iraq&#8221; figure is being thrown around a lot&#8230; and lots of people are thinking about what that money could do&#8230;. but one thing i haven&#8217;t seen yet is what it could do&#8230; in iraq. according to the cia, the gdp per capita in 2002 was $2400. with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}