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What would you do with $811bn?
John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Started conversation Apr 30, 2006
According to the BBC, 'The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has soared and may now reach $811bn (£445bn), says a report by the Congressional Research Service.'
My question, then, is this:
After buying yourself everything that you ever wanted and making yourself ill by overindulging in every conceivable way, how many better ways could you imagine to spend such a stupendous amount of money, bearing in mind that, according to the same broadcast, the UN is cutting its food distribution in Darfur in half due to funding problems and a dear old lady in Lincoln (UK) apparently lived and died quite contentedly in a little house that would last have seemed modern when Queen Victoria sat on the throne?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4955418.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4954096.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/4940566.stm
JTG 
What would you do with $811bn?
swl Posted Apr 30, 2006
Well, I might be able to afford to take up smoking again. 
What would you do with $811bn?
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 30, 2006
That little old lady's house was on my local news this morning (I live about 36 miles away from Lincoln) the TV crew took a tour round the house and it was like going through a museum.
What would I do with $811bn? Fund my own charity. Find a cure for cancer. Give every child from 5-16 free education and then pay them to go to college. Tell certain people that their threat to sue if I speak up about a certain issue no longer frightens the crap out of me.
What would you do with $811bn?
BouncyBitInTheMiddle Posted Apr 30, 2006
Surely the point of having so much money is that you no longer need a personality?
What would you do with $811bn?
A Super Furry Animal Posted Apr 30, 2006
I'd buy myself a small Middle Eastern war.
no, wait...
RF
What would you do with $811bn?
littlemightyblue2(Not around much at the moment) Posted Apr 30, 2006
Not tell my husband
What would you do with $811bn?
A Super Furry Animal Posted Apr 30, 2006
A tad harsh, especially when there's more deserving candidates than Northern Ireland. (Other lands beginning with "Ir" spring immediately to mind.)
RF
What would you do with $811bn?
A Super Furry Animal Posted Apr 30, 2006
Nope, can't see what's wrong with that myself.
RF
What would you do with $811bn?
swl Posted Apr 30, 2006
With $811bn, I'd pay someone to sit beside the mods and give them a gentle slap every time they mod without good reason 
What would you do with $811bn?
A Super Furry Animal Posted Apr 30, 2006
$1bn for Northern Ireland? Go on then, name your price!
RF
What would you do with $811bn?
taliesin Posted May 1, 2006
Hire all hootoo researchers to help me decide how best to distribute the dough.
Right after I sobered up 
What would you do with $811bn?
MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted May 1, 2006
Create an independent Europe that recognisises it's respective Nations, and accepts them as such, and treats them as Nations, not as 
pits ... 
and not penalise the weaker ones. 
Although, somehow I reckon that would take more than $811Bn. 
Anyone want to donate towards my idea?
o/`
What would you do with $811bn?
swl Posted May 1, 2006
Anybody any idea of the interest on $811bn?
I'm just wondering if I'll need to spend any of the principal.
I'd love to see my bank manager's face when I tell him I want to make a deposit.
What would you do with $811bn?
STRANGELY STRANGE ( A brain on a spring ) Posted May 1, 2006
I would buy some REAL WMD and place them in the collective orifices of Shrub and Bliar!
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What would you do with $811bn?
- 1: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (Apr 30, 2006)
- 2: swl (Apr 30, 2006)
- 3: Mu Beta (Apr 30, 2006)
- 4: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Apr 30, 2006)
- 5: swl (Apr 30, 2006)
- 6: BouncyBitInTheMiddle (Apr 30, 2006)
- 7: A Super Furry Animal (Apr 30, 2006)
- 8: littlemightyblue2(Not around much at the moment) (Apr 30, 2006)
- 9: swl (Apr 30, 2006)
- 10: A Super Furry Animal (Apr 30, 2006)
- 11: swl (Apr 30, 2006)
- 12: A Super Furry Animal (Apr 30, 2006)
- 13: aka Bel - A87832164 (Apr 30, 2006)
- 14: swl (Apr 30, 2006)
- 15: A Super Furry Animal (Apr 30, 2006)
- 16: aka Bel - A87832164 (Apr 30, 2006)
- 17: taliesin (May 1, 2006)
- 18: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (May 1, 2006)
- 19: swl (May 1, 2006)
- 20: STRANGELY STRANGE ( A brain on a spring ) (May 1, 2006)
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