Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Story 2

The scene opens on this quote "The Iraq war is expected to cost tax payers $3 trillion dollars" ... "Here is what we could have spent that money on..."

End our Dependence on Foreign Oil
1 purchased for $500,000,000,000.00 each
End hunger and poverty related diseases
1 purchased for $195,000,000,000.00 each
End World Hunger Completely for 1 yr
1 purchased for $195,000,000,000.00 each
Universal Health Care for Every American (300 million of us)
1 purchased for $920,100,000,000.00 each
Pay Half the World for a Day
1 purchased for $13,204,400,000.00 each
finish repairing the damage done by Katrina
1 purchased for $200,000,000,000.00 each
give every teacher a rai$e
1 purchased for $100,000,000.00 each
Broadband To Every U.S. Home
1 purchased for $100,000,000,000.00 each
Switch to Solar
1 purchased for $420,000,000,000.00 each
Every Song in the iTunes Library
2 purchased for $7,000,000.00 each
100 New Libraries
1 purchased for $5,000,000,000.00 each
revamp the u.s. education system
1 purchased for $100,000,000.00 each
Increase sustainable Organic Produce in the US
1 purchased for $10,000,000,000.00 each
The Hope Diamond
1 purchased for $250,000,000.00 each
New Clothing, Shoes, Coats, and School Supplies for Ten Million Children
1 purchased for $10,000,000,000.00 each
Hubble Space Telescope
1 purchased for $1,500,000,000.00 each
New National Power Grid
1 purchased for $100,000,000.00 each
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Public, NYSE:WMT)
1 purchased for $222,520,000,000.00 each
Google
1 purchased for $2,499,750,000.00 each

Each of these things would flash across the screen and the first would be rather slow and illustrated and then the facts would speed up and the text would get larger and larger until the screen was black and then the words in white would appear on the screen: "good design makes choices clear"

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