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April 20, 2006
while jogging
This morning, in a quiet neighborhood just a couple of blocks away from my house, I came across the Pig Mobile (and no, this picture was not taken by me, near my house...it was taken in Tampa Bay, FL a couple years ago):
I did some checking into it and an old True Majority Press Release describes it best:
The “Pig Mobile,” conceived of by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s, consists of three different-sized piggy banks strung together to illustrate just how big a financial disaster the Iraq war has turned out to be.The largest pig (by far) shows the financial cost ($200 billion)[1] of America’s attack on Iraq, including the projected minimum cost of reconstruction. The smaller pig illustrates how much the federal government spends on K-12 education ($34 billion)[2]. And the third pig, which is a wee little pig, shows America’s dedication to lessening world hunger and poverty ($10 billion).[3]
Except those figures were two years ago so the numbers on the piggy have changed. And its belly is packed full of dollar bills.
It was so so quiet, not a soul around, just me, the birds, the squirrels and the pink piggy mobile. It made me feel very very sad.
Posted by crystallyn at April 20, 2006 08:20 AM
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Why only three pigs?
Posted by: Christopher Trottier at April 30, 2006 04:22 PM