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$33.1 billion/yr         
(4 months in Iraq)  

Department of Homeland Security FY 07 budget

$10 billion (1-time)          
(5 weeks in Iraq)    

Equipping commercial airliners with defenses against shoulder fired missiles      

$8.6 billion/7 years          

(one month in Iraq) 

Shortage of international aid needed to rebuild Afghanistan

$5.2 billion (1-time)

(3 weeks in Iraq)    

Estimated need for capital improvements to secure public  transportation  system (trains, subways, buses)

$1.5 billion/year       

(5 days in Iraq)   

Radiation detectors needed at all US ports (rejected due to cost)

$1.4 billion/ year      
(5 days in Iraq)       

Double the COPS (community police grants) program

$800 million/year    

(72 hours in Iraq)   

Public transportation personnel training and technical support

$700 million/year    

(2 days in Iraq) 

100% screening of all air cargo - rejected because of cost (1/4 of domestic shipping and 1/2 of international shipping is done on passenger planes)

$350 million (1-time)   
(1.2 days in Iraq)   

Make emergency radio systems interoperable  (recommended after 9/11 but hasn't happened yet) 

$500 million/year    

(2 days in Iraq)       

Double the firefighters grant program

$94 million/year      

(8-1/2 hours in Iraq)   

Restore cuts to cities hit on 9/11 in Homeland Security budget

$36 billion/5 years   

(4-1/2 months in Iraq)  

Reduction for Medicare spending in President's FY 07 budget  

$5 billion/5 years   

(2-1/2 weeks in Iraq)    

Cut in Medicaid in President's FY 2007 budget

$2.5 billion/5 years   

(9 days in Iraq)       

VA health care premium increases in this year's budget.  Premiums will double and triple and drug co-payments will increase, costing our military retirees $2.4 billion over 5 years

$100 million       

(9 hours in Iraq)     

Additional funding recommended for mental health research for Veterans

$48 million        
(half a day in Iraq)  

Medical and prosthetic research for Veterans

$65 million/yr       
(6 hours in Iraq) 

National Institutes of Health research funding cuts in this year's budget (scientists are leaving the field of health research because funding has been cut so severely) 

$15 billion/yr       

(1-1/2 weeks in Iraq)   

Provide health insurance to 9 million children with no health insurance

$118 million/yr   

(12 hours in Iraq)    

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which provides  nutritional food packages for less than $20 a month to more than 400,000 elderly people - eliminated in the President's budget 
 

$3.4 billion/yr   

(13 days in Iraq)      

Cut in education budget in President's FY 07 budget from FY 06 funding level (over 40 programs including drug-free schools, federal support for the arts,
technology and parent-resource centers).

$664 million/yr   

(2-1/2 days in Iraq)      

Perkins Loan program cut in President's FY 07 budget (would help 463,000 low-income students attend college)

$99 million/yr   

(9 hours in Iraq)

Even Start (eliminated in President's budget)

$300 million       

(1 day, 3 hours in Iraq)

President's cut to EPA budget in FY 2007

$253 billion/30 years   
(2 years in Iraq)  

Clean up contaminated sites in US (Up to 350,000 contaminated sites will require cleanup over the next 30 years according to a report released by the EPA.)   

$9.11 billion       

(1 month, 10 days in Iraq)    

National Park Service maintenance backlog

$6 billion       

(3 weeks in Iraq) 

Forest Service maintenance backlog

$2 billion       

(2 weeks in Iraq)       

Fish and Wildlife Service maintenance backlog

$47.2 billion/yr   

(6 months in Iraq)    

Miscellaneous user fees throughout government imposed by President's budget on taxpayers      

$1.7 billion/yr       

(1 week in Iraq)    

Grants to states cut in 2007 budget   

$15 million/yr       

(1.3 hours in Iraq)

Double the Save America's Treasures program (cut in half from last year's budget)   

$6 billion       

(3 weeks in Iraq)   

Double the number of Navy ships we are buying in the 2007 bill -
from 6 ships to 12.

$8 billion       

(1 month in Iraq)       

Double the number of total Air Force aircraft we are buying in this bill.  That's right - we could double the number of F-22s, Joint Strike Fighters, C-130's, Global Hawks and Predators we are buying.  Or, we could
double the number of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft we are buying - F-18s, V-22s, KC-130Js, and so on.