If you had ~$1.400.000.000.000...

[biostud]

... to spend over 10 years as a country. How would you choose to spend it?

To wage two wars or something else?

 

[JEDIYoda]

wrong forum....belongs in Off Topic....

 

[Jadow]

1.4 dollars? i would get a mcdouble, water, and keep the change.

 

[TechAZ]

EDIT Topic changed, comment redacted.

 

[biostud]

wrong forum....belongs in Off Topic....

Maybe I wasn't too obvious, so I reformulated it.

 

[JEDIYoda]

still belongs in off topic..it is niether news or political...sorry....do not pass go!!

 

[OverVolt]

I would just hand out the first $7,000,000,000 so that I could stay in office to spend the other $7,000,000,000, but when things go bad I would be forced to spend the second half the same way as the first half, never having really spent any of it on a good cause.

How close ami?

 

[Matthiasa]

I would just hand out the first $7,000,000,000 so that I could stay in office to spend the other $7,000,000,000, but when things go bad I would be forced to spend the second half the same way as the first half, never having really spent any of it on a good cause.

How close ami?

Not to close actually...
Look at the number in the op and look at the number you put down.

 

[sandorski]

Not to close actually...
Look at the number in the op and look at the number you put down.

Maybe $1.386T is hidden in the mattress of the Lincoln Bedroom?

 

[SNC]

... to spend over 10 years as a country. How would you choose to spend it?

To wage two wars or something else?

Is there anything worth buying with $1.40?

 

[Matthiasa]

I suppose the op could also be updated with the fact that in the US the us of "," and "." are different when dealing with numerical quantities.

 

[tommo123]

^

yep, some countries in europe use "." instead of "," which is silly since how the hell do you tell where the pennies are?

 

[HumblePie]

I have a dollar fourty to spend. I think I'll get a breakfast taco with it.

 

[jackstar7]

If I had $1.4T, jetpack technology would be further along.

 

[HumblePie]

If I had $1.4T, jetpack technology would be further along.

Oh a trillion buckos is it? I'd be Ironman!

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Ahhhhh the ole European/American period comma thing. Europeans see 1.4 trillion while Americans see a dollar and forty cents.

 

[xj0hnx]

Ahhhhh the ole European/American period comma thing. Europeans see 1.4 trillion while Americans see a dollar and forty cents.

Haven't Europeans figured out to drop all the 0's and just but a B, or a T so we silly comma using Americas can understand?

 

[biostud]

^

yep, some countries in europe use "." instead of "," which is silly since how the hell do you tell where the pennies are?

with a "," of course

 

[tommo123]

Ahhhhh the ole European/American period comma thing. Europeans see 1.4 trillion while Americans see a dollar and forty cents.

mainland europe, brits use commas same as you yanks.

with a "," of course

so backwards then? it just doesn't make sense (to me anyway). you all put "." to separate a phone number into chunks too no?

 

[DaveSimmons]

"But not a real green dress, that's cruel"



I supported the invasion of Afghanistan. It was harboring the people who caused 9/11. If we'd stopped with smashing the Taliban in Afghnaistan and stayed out of Iraq, the cost in dollars and lives would have been tremendously lower.

 

[pauldun170]

If I personally had that amount I would buy a chair and watch the world economy go haywire as the value of the dollar tanked.
Tanked because the amount of US currency in circulation had magically doubled and I had all of it.

Wonder what currency everyone else would use in the US if I had all the official currency?

 

[biostud]

mainland europe, brits use commas same as you yanks.



so backwards then? it just doesn't make sense (to me anyway). you all put "." to separate a phone number into chunks too no?

no just a space

 

[herm0016]

we would have people on the mars and be further along in energy development, also, less debt.

 

[sm625]

I would scour the web, plus every database owned by all branches of the US government, and I would compile a list of 1 million people who have shown the most innovation and creativity. And I would give them each a million dollars and say "go create something". And that's it. Sow the seeds.

Even if they just posted a video on youtube showing how they made an LED light using radio waves. Or even if its just a video of someone using a large parabolic lens to melt through a beer bottle. As long as it is somewhat scientific and creative and related to energy somehow. My goal would be to get the money into the hands of the innovators. Let them do their thing and we would see an economic explosion the likes of which the world has never seen. And the best part is it would only take a handful of non-innovative government nannycrats to make this happen.

 

[KMFJD]

Education/Infrastructure/UHC