MORE (DEPRESSING) FUN WITH NUMBERS

Wherein We Find Anew That $3 Trillion Dollars Buys a Lot of Wiener

That would fire up figu7es' Frankenator for quite awhile.

Via the Huffington Post in an article by that talented John Cusack fellow we find a link to the $3 Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree.

$3 trillion is the projected cost of the Iraq War according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes.

The occupation of Iraq will cost $3 trillion, America's most expensive conflict since WWII.
Can YOU spend that money better?
Here's your chance to go on a virtual $3 trillion shopping spree and prove it!

It gives you an idea what you could really buy with $3 Trillion smackers, if you weren't an idiot who had to lead an ill-conceived invasion that is.

Try it. It's hard to spend $3 Trillion. Unless you're figu7es and then it's just a bad weekend at the tables.

We added the bit about the Ikea hot dog to the site. At .50 each, we could buy 900 of them for everyone on earth with $3 Trillion. Yes, exclusive of transportation costs (which I suppose might be a bit high), we could have bought enough hot dogs to feed everyone on earth 3 hot dogs a day for a year.

Of course, 6 Trillion hot dogs/illegal war that's killed thousands for no particular reason---yeh, we're the fools. I keep forgetting.