Monday, September 29, 2008

What you could do with $700,000,000,000

jmdj:

tmblg:

willw:

dihard:

  • Give every person in the US $2,300 or give every household $6,200.
  • Pay the income taxes of every American who makes $500,000 or less a year.
  • Fully fund the Defense, Treasury, Education, State Veterans Affairs and Interior departments next year, as well as NASA.
  • Buy gasoline for every car in the US for 16 months.
  • Buy every NFL, NBA, and MLB team and build each one a new stadium - and pay your players $191 million a piece for a year
  • Create the 17th largest economy in the world - roughly equal to that of the Netherlands.
  • Or you could pay off just 7% of the $9.8 trillion national debt. (via Time)
OR you could nationalize some mortgage related debt (aka “impaired assets”) that banks, credit unions, and pension funds hold. Using our tax dollars, of course.

Sigh… It’s a little disheartening.  We seriously can’t be this stupid, can we?

Posted at 5:07 PM 58 notes Reblogged from jmdj

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    Philippines from...still have 10x the paid amount leftover.
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  7. rand0mflora reblogged this from jmdj and added:
    Sigh… It’s a little disheartening. We seriously can’t be this stupid, can we?
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    I would go to the biggest cities around the world, cash a like 500k in dollar bills, get on top of the tallest building...
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    I love how this asserts...average American is worth about $2500-$3000 if you’re lucky,...
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    Give every person in...US $2,300 or give every household $6,200. Pay the income taxes of...
  22. frecklesmakemestrong reblogged this from dihard and added:
    Astounding. So can Seattle have...come are all footing
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    I’d buy 100,000,000,000 ponies!...In all seriousness though, I find #4
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    Not amusing, just really interesting. Trust me, I’ll make with...funny again soon, stuff...
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    Sure. You could buy...magical unicorns, too. But they’re not a lot
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    What you could do with $700,000,000,000
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    I’ve been keeping and eye on a lot of the news coming out of...recently, and I thought the...
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  44. aabhowell reblogged this from dihard and added:
    bailout is unavoidable, this whole situation is shameful.
  45. peroty reblogged this from brocatus and added:
    I prefer the Jon Stewart suggestion of “give every American 2300 McDonalds Apple Pies”
  46. brocatus reblogged this from dihard and added:
    OMG. The second item drives down...point; basically everyone’s tax
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