What would you do with $2.9 TRILLION?

[Lokki 7]

It's impossible to imagine just how much $2,900,000,000,000 really is. If you had it, what would you do with it? Think of the hospitals, schools, roads, sea defences, wind farms etc you could build. The lives you could improve, the diseases you could eradicate. Think of all the countless ways you could improve the environment, the world. Care for the sick, homes for the homeless, a roof for the South stand. One person does have this horrendous dilemma and what does he choose to spend it on? The 2007 US military budget, partly funded by a further cut in the already pitifully low health care budget.
We live in a f***ed up world. Any better suggestions on where to splash the cash?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

A modern day scandal.

Edit: I thought it was a rhetorical question. With that much money, you would have the power to make these smal companies squirm and force them to change their polluting ways.

Cancel World debt, assuming that the countries is question have paid above and beyind the original sum...

Etc. etc.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Sign a keeper

 

[byf]

1. Falmer
2. Get rid of world poverty
3. Give Dw 250k towards new players

 

[tedebear]

I'd work on the principle of fixing my own country first - before bigging myself up and aiming to fix the world...

 

[Tricky Dicky]

It's impossible to imagine just how much $2,900,000,000,000 really is. If you had it, what would you do with it? Think of the hospitals, schools, roads, sea defences, wind farms etc you could build. The lives you could improve, the diseases you could eradicate. Think of all the countless ways you could improve the environment, the world. Care for the sick, homes for the homeless, a roof for the South stand. One person does have this horrendous dilemma and what does he choose to spend it on? The 2007 US military budget, partly funded by a further cut in the already pitifully low health care budget.
We live in a f***ed up world. Any better suggestions on where to splash the cash?

For a second I thought that was your bonus !

 

[Commander]

I would buy:

A big f***ing yacht
A big f***ing stadium
10 big f***ing houses
10 f***ing fast cars
Ronaldinho
A private jet

And I would give the other £2.8 Trillion away.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Hmmmmm. I think I would buy Trident, and a few more submarines.

 

[Lokki 7]

Re: Re: What would you do with $2.9 TRILLION?

For a second I thought that was your bonus !

Measured in Congolese Brazzavilles maybe.

 

[OzMike]

Buy Stamford Bridge including players,
Fly the blue and white flag and arrange free luxury trips for all home supporters for life.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I would buy an island in the carribean and a yatch and a speed boat and live a life of luxury till the end of my daysand never ever think about football again

 

[bhafc99]

I'd give it ALL to Uncle Spielberg, he's promised to treble it as he has a hot tip for the 3:30 at Leopardstown.

Then I'd have, um, $8.7 trillion. Almost enough for a deposit on a first home, yay!!

 

[Elegia]

I would buy the town of Lewes flatten the whole place and turn it into a massive car park for the park and ride I would need for the 200,000 all seater stadium I would be building at Falmer.

 

[JJ McClure]

Well to start I buy the US airforce better target identification equipment so they don't go blowing up anymore British tanks.

 

[crodonilson]

It's impossible to imagine just how much $2,900,000,000,000 really is. If you had it, what would you do with it? Think of the hospitals, schools, roads, sea defences, wind farms etc you could build. The lives you could improve, the diseases you could eradicate. Think of all the countless ways you could improve the environment, the world. Care for the sick, homes for the homeless, a roof for the South stand. One person does have this horrendous dilemma and what does he choose to spend it on? The 2007 US military budget, partly funded by a further cut in the already pitifully low health care budget.
We live in a f***ed up world. Any better suggestions on where to splash the cash?

Why dont they just blow up the middle east and be done with it??

 

[Lokki 7]

"As Commander-in-Chief, my highest priority is the security of our nation," Bush said in his accompanying budget message.

"My budget invests substantial resources to fight the global war on terror, and ensure our homeland is protected from those who would do us harm," Bush said.


All those Iraqi's trying to attack the US, yep we need to keep them at bay at all costs. $2.9 trillion? Cheap at twice the price.

 

[Eastleigh Seagull]

It's impossible to imagine just how much $2,900,000,000,000 really is. If you had it, what would you do with it? Think of the hospitals, schools, roads, sea defences, wind farms etc you could build. The lives you could improve, the diseases you could eradicate. Think of all the countless ways you could improve the environment, the world. Care for the sick, homes for the homeless, a roof for the South stand. One person does have this horrendous dilemma and what does he choose to spend it on? The 2007 US military budget, partly funded by a further cut in the already pitifully low health care budget.
We live in a f***ed up world. Any better suggestions on where to splash the cash?

Obviously i would hate to break into the usual anti US diatribes but this is massively incorrect. The 2.9 trillion is the total US Budget not the defence budget, which is 716 biliion (of which 250 billion is a special addition for the Iraq and Afghanistan operation. Yes it is a lot of money but why let facts get in the way of a good rant. Perhaps you should also note that the US Govt actually spends more per person on healthcare than the UK.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

welcome to global capitalism.

you asked for it.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Build a huge house on my own island and pay for a non-stop parade of 18-22 year old girls to come and have sex me me. I'd do that for the rest of my life and to hell with anything or anyone else.

 

[Commander]

Build a huge house on my own island and pay for a non-stop parade of 18-22 year old girls to come and have sex me me. I'd do that for the rest of my life and to hell with anything or anyone else.

But what about the other £2.8 Trillion?