I read an interesting article this morning about a guy (Rob Simpson) who decided to see what you could buy for a trillion dollars- the cost of the Iraq war.
Here are a few of the things you could do with the money:
- pave the entire US interstate highway system in 23.5-karat gold leaf
- buy every person on the planet an iPod
- give every high school student in the US a FREE college education
- buy a Buick for every senior citizen still driving in the US
- pay off every American’s credit card
- buy 16.6 million Habitat for Humanity houses (enough for 43 million Americans)
That’s just a start. Sadly, the estimate for the war has been now increased to closer to 3 trillion dollars…
