Title: What we could have done with the money
Subtitle: 50 ways to spend the trillion dollars we're spending on Iraq
First published: 2008
Description: The war in Iraq is not only controversial, it’s also astronomically expensive. Now Rob Simpson answers the question many concerned Americans have been asking: Wasn’t there some other way the government could have spent one trillion of our tax dollars?What We Could Have Done with the Money presents 50 thought-provoking spending alternatives. With a trillion dollars, we could...Fix Social Security right now: Stop worrying. Stop debating. It’s done. Over. Fixed.End homelessness in America: House 15 million homeless families, get a million kids out of foster care, and have change to spare!Give everyone in the world satellite TV: Can we have the revolution later? I’m watching CSI right now.Pay everyone in Iraq to be nice to each other: Hey! If someone tripled your salary for the next 20 years, wouldn’t you behave?Go Green: Give 100 million car buyers a $10,000 subsidy on their hybrid.Or gold...: Pave every highway in America with gold leaf.Play ball! : Fly everyone in Iraq to America, put them up in a nice hotel for three days with all the extras, take them to a baseball game and fly them home...and have a lot leftover.Cure cancer: Double research spending for as long as it takes....not to mention paying all credit card debt, buying everyone in the world an iPod, building 75 million solar-powered homes, and 39 other revealing pipe dreams.Shocking, thought-provoking, and incredibly entertaining, Simpson takes a hard look at the government’s top priorities—both what they are and what they should be.
Subjects: Waste in government spending, Appropriations and expenditures, Government spending policy, Nonfiction, Politics
Places: United States
LC classification: HJ7537 .S47 2008