This book will get your political juices flowing as we all head into election week. Imagine this. Instead of spending the nearly one trillion dollars on the war in Iraq, America could have:
- Doubled the 663,000 cops on the beat for 32 years.
- Bought 16.6 million Habitat for Humanity houses, enough for 43 million Americans.
- Bought every person on the planet an iPod.
- Given every high school student in the United States a free college education.
- Payed off every American’s credit card.
- Bought a Buick for every senior citizen still driving in the United States. (This might be a little scary.)
“WHAT WE COULD HAVE DONE WITH THE MONEY: 50 Ways To Spend The Trillion Dollars We’ve Spent On Iraq” is the brain child of Rob Simpson who was taken aback when he heard pundits talk about the cost of the war.
“Why aren’t people outraged about this? Why aren’t we hearing about it?” Simpson said. And then it came to him: “Nobody knows what a trillion dollars is.”
The amount — $1,000,000,000,000 — was just too big to comprehend. ~AP
The book comes with a companion web site that lets you virtual shop with a trillion dollar credit card. Go ahead. Just try to spend that much money. I dare you.
