Letters to the Editor
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Clearly, you need some wind turbines
The 3 trillion goes pretty quick when you spend it on energy.
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Buy Google
Those are some good suggestions, but here's a few of my own:
Google: market cap ~$170,000,000,000
Microsoft: market cap ~$280,000,000,000
Of course those are the purchases that pay you back. You could buy Google for that much and then live off the advertising profits forever, and then still have the rest of your 3 trillion to spend.
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I would buy Mexico and have a trillion 5 left over
I would call it Robotanica
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Ponies!
This one's easy. Free ponies for anyone who wants one. Anywhere. Can you get a pony for $1000? That's 3 billion ponies.
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Hurts so good
The Greenwald site aims to illustrate the opportunity cost of the war -- other things we might have done with the money.
We never had the money. Neither did the federal government. Our children and our children's children will be paying off the war debt. The only thing we "might have done" is not choose not to fight an unecessary war.
Greenwald's site strikes me as the perfect opportunity for liberals to assuage their guilt over meekly siting on the sidelines for the past 7 years while the "conservative" Bushies destroyed, well, everything.
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You couldn't buy ALL of Mexico
I would buy Mexico and have a trillion 5 left over
I would call it Robotanica
-- Electro Robot
I wouldn't sell you my house ;)
Maybe for the extra trillion
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bunch of complaining libruls
Once again, elitist libruls fail to report the good news about Iraq.
First of all, it's only $10,000 in debt for every man, woman, and child in America. Look at it that way. Surely nobody could possibly have anything better to do with an amount of money as small as $10,000.
Second of all, you forgot to subtract the value of having a president who we want to have a beer with (*although he ostensibly hasn't touched alcohol for about twenty years*).
Third of all, you forgot to mention that we get to pay it back in US dollars, so right now, all the commies and socialists in places like China, Japan, and Europe who actually lent us the money are screwed too. Not as screwed as we are, sure, but hey...
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"For the last three hours I've tried to spend $3 trillion and I barely cracked a trillion."
Obviously you've never worked in the U.S. "defense" industry.
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That's not all
Greenwald also came out with an excellent video and website about the Condi Rice scandal. For those who haven't heard, she directly authorized the torture of detainees. Check it out at:
www.condimustgo.com
Say, why isn't Salon covering the scandal?
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I'd...
I'd buy Fox, CNN, Disney and Apple. I'd fire Ayles after demoting him to 'piss boy' status.
I'd buy the building housing the American Enterprise Institute. And every building they tried to move in to.
I'd buy Abu Graib prison and throw Bush and ALL his enablers (including the SCOTUS) and pay willingly for that 'extra special treatment'.
I'd buy the catholic church and publicly flog all the people involved in the disgusting sex scandal and then turn the Vatican into a theme park complete with children chasing priests and bishops.
I'd buy the baptist churches and convert them all to Islam.
I'd buy a controlling interest in all the oil companies and toss their boards out on their asses and cut gas to 95 cents a gallon and bankrupt all the greedy stockholders. I'd make it so that every car that got over 100MPG would get their gas free, for life.
I'd buy ten trees and pay everyone to plant them in their yards.
I'd force the Pentagon to have to use bake sales and kissing booths to fund any new weapon systems with the maximum price per coffee cake or smooch of Gate's ass being fifty cents. (I wonder if I could buy out the arms manufacturers of the world and put them out of business?)
I'd buy Congress and get them to approve the appointment of the the original Muppet's to the supreme court. (They can't be as bad as the reich wing partisan hacks in there now) I'd make them pass a law that would outlaw sports stars making over the yearly wage of the lowest paid teacher anywhere in this country.
I'd buy Dow and Monsanto and Pfizer and make their corporate boards the human guinea pigs for testing their chemicals and drugs. I'll bet we could find out if dioxin (or vinyl chloride or, etc...) really cause cancer pretty fast that way.
Things I'd do, if I could...