Top 5 Gadgets the $2 Trillion spent on Iraq War could have got us
Analysts estimate that Mr. Bush's Iraq adventure could cost the country a staggering $2.0 trillion says NY Times. 2 Trillion dollars is a lot of money it is the equivalent of UK's GDP or two and a half times the combined GDP's of Pakistan and Bangladesh. This kind of money is more than enough to gift the entire World population a decent gadget. So here are the numbers -
1 Trillion = 1,000 billion
Word Population = 6 billion
Cost of War / World population = 2000 billion / 6 billion = $333 for every human on the planet
An 8GB iPod Touch costs $299 and the remaining $34 as an iTunes gift certificate. Hopefully Torrent traffic will be low for some days.
LG 20 inch LCD TV costs just about $330 so world it is time to throw out those big Cathode Ray TV's
Asus Eee PC this super compact PC comes with a 7 inch screen and has just about everything to get online. It costs around $340, 6 bucks is not a huge discount when you are ordering 6 billion units.
Samsung BD-P1400 Blu-Ray Disc Player high def 1080p goodness for the entire world for $330.
Nintendo Wii at $334. Its a me Mario. Mr. Bush.
(Pricing obtained from Amazon and other popular shopping sites)
It is impossible for anyone to visualize such huge amounts of money. The illustration gives an idea of how $315 billion dollars would look if stacked in $1 bills. Needless to say $2 trillion would not fit on the screen. The tiny specs next to the mountain of money is a man and his car.
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2 trillian about 1.8 trillian off! Not to mention that this is over the course of 5 years. That's about $6.60 cents a year for the last 5 years! In other words, two gallons of gas ;).
and this is not "Mr. Bush's" war, it's a war against one of our greatest threats this country has ever had. Unfortunately some people are too stupid to realize that.