How disturbing is this report?

The U.S. government said the number of Americans who went hungry in 2006 was held in check at 35 million people from the prior year, but food advocacy groups said on Wednesday more needs to be done. Overall, 35.52 million people, including 12.63 million children, went hungry compared with 35.13 million in 2005. The survey was conducted in December 2006 and represented 294 million people, an increase of 2.5 million from 2005. Food advocacy groups said the figures showed the United States was not doing enough to combat hunger, and feared conditions could worsen. "As costs for food, energy, and housing continue to rise and wages stagnate or decline, households are finding themselves increasingly strapped," said Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center. "This may mean even worse numbers in 2007."

And meanwhile, The War in Iraq Has Cost us $468,686,263,273 to date.

Instead, we could have hired 8,122,392 additional public school teachers for one year.

Instead, we could have built 4,220,081 additional housing units.

Instead, we could have paid for 62,077,690 children to attend a year of Head Start.

Instead, we could have insured 280,650,675 children for one year.

Instead, we could have provided 22,720,900students four-year scholarships at public universities.