Thursday, September 25, 2008

What you can buy with $700 Billion (a semi political blog)

The US government is debating a $700 billion buyout of our financial lenders. To understand how much money this is, here is a list I found on the internet of what you can buy with that much money:

What does $700 billion actually buy?

It is tough to wrap your brain around how much money it is, so we've tried to put things in perspective for you. (All figures are estimates)

You could buy 21 new Marlins Stadiums for EACH COUNTY in the state of Florida

You could buy braces for everyone in Great Britain.....and France!

You could buy all 32 NFL teams - 27 times

2 cups of Starbucks every day for a year for every person in Brazil

Gasoline for a year for every adult in America. (175 billion gallons of gas)

You could literally buy the world a Coke. One 2-liter bottle per week for a year.

You could buy a 60-inch HDTV for every man, woman and child in the U.S.

Sounds like Monopoly money? It should. You could buy 10 Monopoly games for each of the 6.7 billion human beings on planet earth.

You could buy 7 Mac laptops for every school-age child in U.S.

You could buy every adult in Miami-Dade County an average priced house

Rolex watches you could buy 1 for every woman in the U.S.

You could buy everyone in America 2200 McDonalds apple pies.

Disney tickets: 8 (3-day) passes to Disney for the entire U.S. population

10 four-year degrees from the University of Florida for every child under 18 in South Florida

You could buy 373 basketballs for every child in the U.S.

Sun Sentinel newspapers Two and a half years of 7-day subscriptions for every person in India

You could buy a brand new Hummer for each of the 11 million people on the island of Cuba

You could buy 2 mountain bikes for everyone in China

You could buy every winner of the MTV Video Music Awards 10,000 Lear Jets

You could buy 438 pounds of rice for every single person in Africa.

You could buy 200 four-packs or Play-Doh for every child under 14 on the planet

You could buy 400 trees for every one of the 7 million homes in the state of Florida

You could buy a Caribbean Island for every single person in the state of South Dakota.

1.5 million lightbulbs for every person in Alaska

Entire population of South Florida could cruise around the world continuously for 8.4 months

1 comment:

Emily Anne said...

I would like to buy the world a coke. HOLY GOODNESS, that is lots of stuff you could do with that money, some of it better than what they are planning on doing.