Sunday, September 21, 2008

New Math

If every second of every minute of every hour of every day for the next 22 years, you were to hand a Wall Street CEO a $1000 bill, you would still not have spent $700 Billion.

Wouldn't we rather spend the time handing $1000 bills to teachers, wind-power engineers, healthcare workers and bridge-repair specialists? They could even take turns, one every four seconds. Or maybe we should just start handing out $1000 bills to poor people and the elderly. They could use the money, too.

It's a lot of money. A LOT.