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OR you could nationalize some mortgage related debt (aka “impaired assets”) that banks, credit unions, and pension funds hold. Using our tax dollars, of course.
- Give every person in the US $2,300 or give every household $6,200.
- Pay the income taxes of every American who makes $500,000 or less a year.
- Fully fund the Defense, Treasure, Education, State Veterans Affairs and Interior departments next year, as well as NASA.
- Buy gasoline for every car int he US for 16 months.
- Buy every NFL, NBA, and MLB team and build each one a new stadium - and pay your players $191 million a pieces for a year
- Create the 17th largest economy in the world - roughly equal to that of the Netherlands.
- Or you could pay off just 7% of the $9.8 trillion national debt. (via Time)
While a bailout is unavoidable, this whole situation is shameful.
Philippines from...still have 10x the paid amount leftover.
Sigh… It’s a little disheartening. We seriously can’t be this stupid, can we?
I would go to the biggest cities around the world, cash a like 500k in dollar bills, get on top of the tallest building...
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I’d buy 100,000,000,000 ponies!...In all seriousness though, I find #4
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Sure. You could buy...magical unicorns, too. But they’re not a lot
What you could do with $700,000,000,000
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bailout is unavoidable, this whole situation is shameful.
I prefer the Jon Stewart suggestion of “give every American 2300 McDonalds Apple Pies”
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