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Neil Sinhababu presents 118 things we could've bought for the $3 trillion price of the Iraq War.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Buy Everyone A 27" TV To Watch Obama's Inaugural Address
For the price of the Iraq War, we could buy everyone on earth a 27" color TV with which to watch President Obama's inaugural address.
There are 6.7 billion people on Earth. A Sharp 27" color TV costs $330. Buying each person their own TV would cost $2.21 trillion, or $790 billion less than Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes' estimate of $3 trillion for the total cost of the Iraq War.
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Hi! I'm Neil Sinhababu.
Back when I started this blog in 2008, the Iraq War had been estimated to cost $3 trillion by two top economists. That's enough to buy
a new Toyota Prius for every household in America
-- hence the name. For four months, I listed a new thing you could buy for the price of the Iraq War each day.
I'm a
philosophy professor
at the National University of Singapore.
If you want to know a little more about me, you can check out this
interview that has my views on lots of fun philosophical topics
. Or if you want to see
my homepage, it's here.
I also have a
self-titled blog
where I post occasional political and philosophical content -- mostly stuff that my friends on Facebook found interesting.
If you're interested in other random stuff by me on the internet, here's my most-read philosophy paper, "
Possible Girls
." It's about how you can have a romantic relationship with someone in another universe. It's been covered in
Valentine's Day special posts on Vox
and the
Washington Post
.
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Make each panda the CEO of its own regional airline
Give every HIV-positive person a lifetime supply o...
Buy a hot air balloon for every Obama voter, so th...
Buy enough pecans for a pie the size of West Virginia
Buy every US soldier who died in Iraq their own nu...
Give everyone in Pennsylvania a jet pack
Subscribe to the LA Times since the beginning of time
Pay Ethiopia's health care bills for a thousand years
Fund the Lizard People's Senate campaigns for the ...
Turn the Sahara Desert into a forest
Buy enough MP3s for a 50 trillion mile road trip
Buy the global kiwi harvest until 5000 AD
Pay full tuition at Stanford for every American ch...
Buy Uranus at the per acre price of Alaska
Feed Sheriff Joe Arpaio moldy bologna for the next...
Buy Hillary a Toyota Camry for every second of the...
Buy enough Neiman Marcus pajamas for all women in ...
Give Joe Lieberman 20 billion tons of manure
Make enough $30 DNC donations to give everyone two...
Pay every Mexican the minimum wage to stay home fo...
Give every Alaskan ten times the gifts that Ted St...
Buy the world's cinnamon harvest for ten thousand ...
Pay every unemployed American a Congressperson's s...
Protect Alaskan wolves and moose from aerial hunti...
Give the Georgians who forced Sen. Chambliss into ...
Buy Everyone A 27" TV To Watch Obama's Inaugural A...
Give every American the median wage for the next h...
Make each swing state vote worth $10,000
Buy everyone in Sean Hannity's audience a Swift Boat
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