What would you do with $700,000,000,000 thread

[SeanEdwards]

Buy a Euro.

 

[CasualApathy]

Buy a Euro.

LOL!!

I just spilled my cola.

 

[DFF]

Go to Switzerland in double-quick time to "save" UBS-AG and Credit Suisse! lol

 

[Knightskye]

Fund about 534 liberty-minded runs for office and fund Ron Paul's next run for the White House.

And put the rest toward the debt.

 

[Scotso]

I'd buy my own island. Convince a bunch of people to move there that I could basically use as slaves and rule as God-King. Isn't that what everyone would do?

Buy a Euro.

I almost fell out of my chair.

 

[thomaspaine23]

Buy the white house!!!!!


Oh wait, someone already did that.... NM

 

[trey4sports]

i would buy every single seat in congress for the next 4 years THEN with the remaining 1 billion dollars i would buy a QP of some FIRE ass bud, roll one mega blunt and pass it around the congressional floor as we pass laws securing liberty,peace,and prosperity!

 

[ShowMeLiberty]

Another idea would be to buy the worlds largest media conglomerate and change all magazine, newspapers, websites, and stations to a liberty format. This give bonuses to all the reporters to find and expose evil doing in government and industry.

^ That's a good idea. I'd do that.

Also buy a tropical island and declare my own country. Buy lots of gold and silver. Whatever is left, I would give away as a Secret Santa.

 

[82ndVET4RP]

I would burn it to lower inflation.

 

[Magsec]

Pay off my student loans and the loans from several of my college friends.
Throw a million or two into an IRA
Throw a couple thousand into having a decent place to live.
Invest all the rest in gold.

 

[literatim]

Find or buy an island and start a country.

 

[kombayn]

Divide it out evenly to the American taxpayers.

 

[Joseph Hart]

1. I would first bring all the troops home
2. advertise Chuck Baldwin via Moonvertising
3. Pay off foreign debts
4. convert the DEA into a giant greenhouse and grow
5. Use the rest to buy gold and restock Fort Knox and eliminate the Federal Reserve through competition. Free market ftw

 

[Rhys]

Wow, some of you are impressively civic minded. I wonder, if you really did have an 11 zeros payday, would you still be so kind. lol

 

[xd9fan]

if it came from my fellow americans by force, not take it and give it back.

Dont tell me we cant find waste and misuse of the Constitution in Govt that could fill this gap.

 

[Join The Paul Side]

I would use the $700 billion to pay off Congress to impeach Dubya and then resign.

 

[Razorback Fan]

-Found Anarchist Community

I read that as "Antichrist Community".

 

[RockEnds]

LOL!!

I just spilled my cola.

No worries. Since I cannot even fathom $700 billion, here's how I'd squander the loot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOEU87SBTU

 

[Kludge]

Purchase textbook publishers.

 

[anaconda]

Divide it out evenly to the American taxpayers.

Why isn't anyone in Congress proposing this?

Why not send the "bailout" liquidity directly to the taxpayers instead of initially through the banks? That way, the unhealthy banks can fail, and the People will spend the money and, through the money multiplier, it will rapidly work its way through the banking system providing the banking system with gobbs of fresh liquidity and credit. And stimulate the heck out of the economy.

Why haven't we heard anyone in Congress suggest this? Even RP might have suggested it as an alternative to the Wall Street bailout.

I don't get it. Any solid economists out there that can set me straight? Thanks.