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What would YOUR IT department buy with $700 billion?By Anonymous on September 23, 2008, 11:30 am
Late last week, the Bush administration unveiled a staggering plan to bail out the financial industry by having the federal government purchase $700 billion in unwanted mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. For those of you keeping score at home, this means the government could soon spend nearly $1 trillion on what amounts to a large pile of trash. To give you some perspective on just how large this sum of money is, we’ve broken down what sort of assets your company could purchase with $700 billion, including wireless communications devices, data centers and even new CEOs.
We posted a few different interesting ways to blow $700B here, but we want to know how YOU would spend the dough. Share your thoughts here.
Alternative power for everyoneBy Anonymous on September 25, 2008, 4:27 pmI'm with the solar power/ alternative fuel. With that much money, we could put a pretty good dent in becoming energy independent.
the best ideaBy Anonymous on September 24, 2008, 10:34 pmpurchase the small countries our corporations manufacture in. Get the idea. Invest, don't splurge.
the expensive part is maintain the perches not buying itBy Anonymous on September 24, 2008, 5:50 pmso you could have a flight of space shuttles, how many fuel do you have? ground control? electricity to run the operation? space pilots? space pilot training? buying the shuttle alone is the cheap part
Solar PowerBy Anonymous on September 24, 2008, 3:37 pmWe could build enough solar power arrays to put the Oil industries out of business and make a huge profit.
My IT department would sendBy Anonymous on September 24, 2008, 3:19 pmMy IT department would send me to elementary school so that I could actually do basic math, unlike the author of this article.
How about $100,000.00 forBy Anonymous on September 24, 2008, 3:02 pmHow about $100,000.00 for every citizen that earns less than $100,000.00 to get out of debt???
Too muchBy Anonymous on September 25, 2008, 9:54 amI like the concept, but that would only cover 700,000 of us. What if we each apply for the amount that we "need" as long as we repay 5-15% to the IRS for the rest of our working lives?
We could build spaceBy Anonymous on September 24, 2008, 6:45 pmWe could build space elevators using carbon nanotubes, linked to a platform in geosynchronus orbit, and at an estimated 10 billion dollar price tag, we could put one in every major city in the United States. We could also build 140 Large Hadron Colliders, or better yet, one giant particle accelerator with a circumference of 2,240 miles, which is over 700 miles across. We could purchase 23 million hybrid vehicles priced at 30 grand, and hand them out to citizens via a lottery.