What kinds of things could you do if you had $100,000?
Well, you could pay off most of the student loans of a newly graduated doctor.
You could hire 5 people at $20,000 for an entire year to do whatever the heck you want. Like, oh, i don’t know, help rebuild New Orleans.
Speaking of which, you could rebuild a house in New Orleans.
You could buy over 16,000 six-packs of decent beer.
You could buy a quarter of a million winter coats for homeless people.
You could buy 7 Chevy Aveos and have a different colored one for each day of the week.
You could take a few hundred of your closest friends to dinner and a movie. Actually, you might be able to do that twice.
You could give it to President Bush and become one of his “Pioneer” level campaign contributors.
You could give it to your local school district and help them buy things like books and computers.
Ok, that’s just a short list. Consider for a moment the idea of having that kind of money to spend or waste every minute of the day.
Well, that’s what the war in Iraq is costing us. Furthermore, we are spending more on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (bet you forgot about Afghanistan, huh?) this year than we have since the whole mess started in 2001.
I’m just sayin.
In closing, The Man who said No to Wal-Mart, the Truth about Universal Health Care, and the Squeeze on American Pocketbooks.