What We Could Have Done with the Money

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The war in Iraq is not only controversial, it's also astronomically expensive. Now Rob Simpson answers the question many concerned Americans have been asking: Wasn't there some other way the government could have spent one trillion of our tax dollars br/br/What We Could Have Done with the Money presents 50 thought-provoking spending alternatives. With a trillion dollars, we could . . . br/br/ bulletlist bulletboldFix Social Security right now:/bold Stop worrying. Stop debating. It's done. Over. Fixed. bulletboldEnd homelessness in America:/bold House 15 million homeless families, get a million kids out of foster care, and have change to spare! bulletboldGive everyone in the world satellite TV:/bold Can we have the revolution later? I'm watching CSI right now. bulletboldPay everyone in Iraq to be nice to each other:/bold Hey! If someone tripled your salary for the next 20 years, wouldn't you behave? bulletboldGo Green:/bold Give 100 million car buyers a $10,000 subsidy on their hybrid. bulletboldOr gold . . . :/bold Pave every highway in America with gold leaf. bulletboldPlay ball! :/bold Fly everyone in Iraq to America, put them up in a nice hotel for three days with all the extras, take them to a baseball game and fly them home . . . and have a lot leftover. bulletboldCure cancer:/bold Double research spending for as long as it takes. br/br//bullet/bulletlist br/br/. . . not to mention paying all credit card debt, buying everyone in the world an iPad, building 75 million solar-powered homes, and 39 other revealing pipe dreams. br/br/Shocking, thought-provoking, and incredibly entertaining, Simpson takes a hard look at the government's top priorities--both what they are and what they should be.