What a Trillion Dollars Buys October 28, 2008

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…