$700 Billion
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You know, our economy might have serious problems, but let me point out that for the same cash, we could buy every single person in Africa 438 pounds of rice.
What else can you do with that kinda dough?
What else can you do with that kinda dough?
233,333 Super Bowl ads;
400 Space Shuttles;
12 Bill Gates; and
56,000 Victoria Secret diamond and ruby encrusted bras
It is $120 billion more than that spent on social security benefits.
It is almost 3 billion nonrefundable bus fares from Durham to San Francisco, leaving tomorrow.
It is nine times the amount spent on education in 2007.
It could pay for 2,000 McDonalds apple pies for every single American.
That’s a lot of pie. Here are some more numbers that we came up with to help you wrap your head around how much money $700 billion really is:
- It would reimburse banks, home owners, and local governments for nearly 9 million foreclosures
- It could prevent over 200 million foreclosures
- It could buy 8.6 billion monthly Metrocards
- The government could rebuild Katrina-ravished New Orleans and Gulf Coast … three and a half times
- Roughly 538 Yankee Stadiums could be built
- 5.4 million students could be sent to a public university
- It equals nearly 520 times the amount of Amtrak’s current operating budget
- It is $14 billion more than the U.S. spent during the Vietnam War
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