I just did a little number crunching
Brian made a recent entry that prompted me to do a little bit of number crunching on how much money the US has spent on the War in Iraq. How much stuff could we buy with that money?
For the current cost, check here. As of right now, it's about $346,613,357,000.
Based on this source, it would cost about $30,000/student to go 4 years at UA.
That gives us 11,554,000 fully paid scholarships to UA. That's the entire population of Alabama (4,447,100) two and a half times over.
If you look at Ebay's Most Expensive Items list, you could almost buy everything on there with the cost of this war.
Let's say, just for example, we, in the United States got tired of cold weather. To solve this problem, we decide to build a wall between the US and Canada. The length of the border, on land, is 3,145 miles. Based on Ontariocontractors.com, it costs about $5/10 square feet for brick wall. We could build a 6' wall between us for $49,816,800. We could make that wall 7,028 times over.
That's also 6.5 times Bill Gate's worth.
You could buy 240,570 Bugatti Veyrons (currently the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world)
You could collectively buy all of the islands for valued over 10 million at http://www.privateislandsonline.com/sale-price-over-10M.htm.
You could buy 577,688,928 Playstation 3s.
With the same money, you could give $1,154.15 to everyone in the US $1,154.15 or $52.83 to everyone on the planet.
For the current cost, check here. As of right now, it's about $346,613,357,000.
Based on this source, it would cost about $30,000/student to go 4 years at UA.
That gives us 11,554,000 fully paid scholarships to UA. That's the entire population of Alabama (4,447,100) two and a half times over.
If you look at Ebay's Most Expensive Items list, you could almost buy everything on there with the cost of this war.
Let's say, just for example, we, in the United States got tired of cold weather. To solve this problem, we decide to build a wall between the US and Canada. The length of the border, on land, is 3,145 miles. Based on Ontariocontractors.com, it costs about $5/10 square feet for brick wall. We could build a 6' wall between us for $49,816,800. We could make that wall 7,028 times over.
That's also 6.5 times Bill Gate's worth.
You could buy 240,570 Bugatti Veyrons (currently the most powerful, most expensive, and fastest street-legal production car in the world)
You could collectively buy all of the islands for valued over 10 million at http://www.privateislandsonline.com/sale-price-over-10M.htm.
You could buy 577,688,928 Playstation 3s.
With the same money, you could give $1,154.15 to everyone in the US $1,154.15 or $52.83 to everyone on the planet.