The Old Eighteen

What would you do with $3 trillion?

Well, if you're Hillary Clinton, you'd probably use some of it to pay off your campaign debt.  But whatever you do, don't spend it all on a war in Iraq.  Treat yourself to a spending spree here instead.  Here's what I bought with my $3 trillion:

invasive species research
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $120,000,000.00

Fund an Endangered Species
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $500,000,000.00

Health Care and Housing for Veterans in Need
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $3,000,000,000.00

Buy “Pizza.com”
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $3,000,000.00

Fund International Research to Find an AIDS cure
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $1,000,000,000.00

New Clothing, Shoes, Coats, and School Supplies for Ten Million Children
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $10,000,000,000.00

Encyclopedias, Manuals, etc. in 1,000 timecapsules around the world to restart civilization
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $2,000,000,000.00

Gift of Sheep
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $120.00

Fight AIDS in Developing Nations
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $15,000,000,000.00

100 New Libraries
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $5,000,000,000.00

Mooning Garden Gnome
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $14.98

Secret Island Fortress
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $15,000,000.00

Clean up Pollution
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $160,000,000,000.00

Raise minimum Wage to $15
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $987,000,000.00

Legalize Weed
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $1,000,000.00

Orbital Mind Control Laser with Satellite
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $340,000,000,000.00

IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $1,000,000.00

george w. bush martian trip
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $5,000,000.00

A Vacation
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $20,000.00

Plant 1,000,000 trees
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $10,000,000.00

Sustainable Agriculture Education, Worldwide
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $200,000,000.00

End Third-World Debt
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $422,000,000,000.00

Universal Health Care for Every American (300 million of us)
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $920,100,000,000.00

finish repairing the damage done by Katrina
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $200,000,000,000.00

End hunger and poverty related diseases
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $195,000,000,000.00

Switch to Solar
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $420,000,000,000.00

Achieve Universal Literacy
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $5,000,000,000.00

Build a National High Speed Rail System
QUANTITY: 1
PRICE: $300,000,000,000.00

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(via boadicea at Texas Kaos)

"Trillions More"

This is a new ad that was released by Friends of the Earth Action, criticizing McCain for portraying himself as a a friend of the environment and a budget watchdog when he's pushing billions of dollars of pork for corporate polluters:

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(via Meteor Blades at Daily Kos)