What does $700 billion actually buy? You Won’t Believe!

We all know that $700 billion–the amount of the proposed federal bailout of Wall Street and Main Street–is a heck of a lot of money. But it’s so much money that it’s basically impossible to wrap your brain around it. TIME magazine and The Associated Press went on an imaginary spending spree and this is what they report we could buy with that amount. Hmm.. It is tough to wrap your brain around how much money it is, so we’ve tried to put things in perspective for you. (All figures are estimates)

..is the heck of a lot of money..

Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?

What you could buy with $700,000,000,000:

You could buy 13 new Citi Fields for EACH COUNTY in the state of New York

You could buy braces for everyone in Great Britain.....and France!

You could buy all 32 NFL teams - 27 times

2 cups of Starbucks every day for a year for every person in Brazil

Gasoline for a year for every adult in America. (175 billion gallons of gas)

You could literally buy the world a Coke. One 2-liter bottle per week for a year

You could buy a 60-inch HDTV for every man, woman and child in the U.S.

Sounds like Monopoly money? It should. You could buy 10 Monopoly games for each of the 6.7 billion human beings on planet earth.

You could buy 7 Mac laptops for every school-age child in U.S

You could buy every resident of Suffolk County a median priced home

Rolex watches – you could buy 1 for every woman in the U.S.

You could buy everyone in America 2200 McDonalds apple pies.

Disney tickets – 18 (3-day) passes to Disney for the entire U.S. population

202 T-mobile G1 mobile phones for every resident of New York state

You could buy 373 basketballs for every child in the U.S.

2 years of Newsday subscriptions for every person in China.

–Purchase every NFL, NBA and MLB team, build each one a new stadium and pay each player a salary of $191 million for a year.
–Buy gasoline for every car in the United States for 16 months.
–Give every person in the United States $2,300 or give every household $6,200.
–Every deficient bridge in the United States could be repaired–four times over.
–You could build 1,750 bridges to nowhere.
–You could start your own country. $700 billion is roughly equal to the economy in The Netherlands.
–You could finance the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s premier medical research institute, for 20 years.
–You could pay the salaries of 22 million average Americans for one year.
–For one year, you could pay the health care bills of the more than 85 million seniors, disabled people, children and low-income Americans enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.
–You could pay off all the outstanding student loans in the United States (from both government and private lenders) and still have $150 billion to give to current college students.
–You could pay off 7 percent of the $9.8 trillion (and growing) national debt.

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