National Priorities

http://www.nationalpriorities.org

Go there and play around on the site. You can take a look at the cost of the Iraq war or the Bailout plan among others specific to your state or community and then choose a trade off, or what the money could have bought instead.

For example:
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs?location_type=1&state=42&program=577&tradeoff_item_item=280&submit_tradeoffs=Get+Trade+Off