Before:
Serious mental illness costs Americans at least $193 billion a year in lost earnings alone, a new report shows.

-- possibly accurate. we have no way of knowing without hours of research, maybe days or weeks. but the wrong spin, don't you think?

or should we say: the wrong STORY?

And After:

Serious mental illness of George W. Bush and cronies costs Americans at least ...

Ya know, figures are so cold and impersonal and they accelerate too quickly to allow the average citizen to catch up. But check out the ticker and cost-benefit analysis here.

And how are those veterans doing? Government paying for bomb-sized Extra Strength Tylenol to stop those killing headaches?

"But it's not just a headache. He can't speak without slurring words. He can't remember ... my ... name. His wife .... I understand ... support ... right ... priorities ... fiscal realities ... resonable ... the costs of war.... An icepack? Or a washcloth. I do have those, yes.... He fires his gun into the ground every morning. No, just the ground...."