{"id":4651,"date":"2008-09-23T10:17:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T09:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2008-09-23T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T09:17:45","slug":"the-list-what-a-trillion-dollars-will-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/the-list-what-a-trillion-dollars-will-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LIST: WHAT A TRILLION DOLLARS WILL BUY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Andrew Davis, Libertarian Party <\/span><\/p>\n<p>One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money:<\/p>\n<p>To buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo.<\/p>\n<p>To buy 88,052, 394&#8242; custom mega yachts; enough to stretch around \u00c3\u201a\u00bc of the world.<\/p>\n<p>To buy everyone living in Belize and Malta a Manhattan apartment.<\/p>\n<p>To get half of the Democratic Party into a fundraiser for Barack Obama at the $28,500 admission price.<\/p>\n<p>To give one out of every two men in the United States a Men&#8217;s Presidential Rolex watch.<\/p>\n<p>To buy every woman in the United States a Tiffany Diamond Starfish Pendant.<\/p>\n<p>To get two Mitsubishi 73&#8243; HDTVs for every household in America.<\/p>\n<p>To buy four copies of The Office: Season Four on DVD, to every person on earth.<\/p>\n<p>To send everybody in America on an all-inclusive vacation to Tahiti (and some people can stay a few extra days).<\/p>\n<p>$1 trillion is enough money for everyone in Buffalo, NY to buy their own 65-acre island in Panama.<\/p>\n<p>This is how much the government is going to cost you (roughly $3,278 for every man, woman and child in the United States).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Davis, Libertarian Party One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money: To buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo. To buy 88,052, 394&#8242; custom mega yachts; enough to stretch around \u00c3\u201a\u00bc of the world. To buy everyone living in Belize and Malta a Manhattan apartment. To get half of the Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5624],"class_list":{"0":"post-4651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"tag-money"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}