What Could A Crazy Person Do With A Couple Trillion Dollars?

[Syrinx]

I wonder where all that money went? It bodes ill.

Pentagon "misplaces" $2.3 trillion

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."
(Donald Rumsfeld, quoted on CBS News, 29/1/02)

Rumsfeld admitted that the Pentagon misplaced $2.3 trillion. This money has disappeared – nobody knows where it's gone. Government officials have blamed the accounting systems – the US Department of Defense has failed to produce independently audited accounts since 1995

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[Warren DeMontague]

1. Treasure Bath! Treasure Bath!

[magellan]

2. Make a good dent in solving world hunger?

Fund more research into cures for diseases like AIDS/HIV and cancer? Save forests of trees and endangered animals and their habitats, buy everyone a solar power array and a hybrid car? etc....

Oh, you meant a BAD crazy person, didn't you?

[andrewcorbin20]

3. Well...

Isn't that just great. HOW DO YOU MISPLACE 2 TRILLION? Wow. Why am I not surprised?

[Igel]

12. Depends on the length of time the bad accounting covers.

If it covers 20 years, it gets a lot easier than if it covers two years. (My brief stint as a DARCOM intern made it clear to me that it'll take a lot of work to get the military to properly account for things ... then again, the small office I worked in didn't do a heck of a whole lot better, relatively speaking.)

[MADem]

4. I hate to say this, but this is pretty much par for the course. The waste is WORSE now, but it was

always UNACCEPTABLE. With a war going on, there's way more opportunity for graft, and this administration doesn't do any of that wussy "oversight" stuff, see?

[converted_democrat]

5. This is why I'm convinced we're in trouble...

Everyone keeps trying to convince me that George can't go to war with Iran because Congress controls the purse strings.. Who needs Congress and their purse, if you have 2 trillion to fund your cause with? I remember the first time I heard about the missing money over a year ago. Cold shivers ran down my back, and I thought out loud to myself, "This sure could come back to bite us in the ass." I just pray that the money was stolen, better stolen, than used for war.

[NuttyFluffers]

6. you could make skyscrapers shaped and colored like phalluses in major cities...

*AND* have a retinue of lawyers to defend it ad infinitum.

[CJCRANE]

7. That's certainly creative!

Why not put a couple of these things in orbit too, just for good measure.

[GreenZoneLT]

8. I don't know, yet.

Gimme the $2 trillion, and we'll find out, won't we?

[NuttyFluffers]

9. all you have to do is paint the shuttles and rockets for that.

maybe contour some of the heat panels to give the semblance of veins.

oh, there's quite a lot you can do with $2.3 trillion, and since i might as well be certified crazy, i can easily give you more.

you could buy up as many barges the world currently has to offer and ship them into the Great Salt Lake to watch them rust and observe the rest of the world scramble to build enough barges to replace the now lost supply.

further we could use the gigantic supply of rust to create a flammable highway like we already did. use ground up tires and rust as the road bed material. when friction ignites the rust, the rubber starts to burn. could actually invent the exact mixture where the road stays perpetually 'lit,' hot enough to melt snow, but not hot enough to melt the tires of travellers.

you could convert the Pan-American Highway into a mag-lev bullettrain. with only two stops -- at the beginning and the end.

you could turn several large lakes into giant jell-o jigglers, transport the gigantic chunks into a desert and watch it melt.

you could channel all of Niagra Falls water into a gigantic replica of Trevi fountain -- hey, if we can already redivert the water to "turn off" the falls, we can do just about anything with $2.3 trillion.

turn Delaware into an island by following its border and building an epic sized trench along it. import sand and make "beach front property."

at that level of money there's just about *nothing* you cannot do.

[CJCRANE]

11. You have a great career ahead of you

as the first Mega-size conceptual artist.

Move over, Christo.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Why is no one in jail yet???!!!!

And if Bush is so adamant about being the
unitary commander in chief, then why isn't
he responsible??? 2.3 TRILLION....c'mon
how blatant does their criminality have to get ???
Wake up congress !!!! Do your duty !!!

[Nikia]

13. I always thought that they did off the books research

That's what I thought when I heard about some of the inflated prices that they allegedly payed for inflated items. They really weren't paying that much. They were just recording as it such so they could use the rest of the money to do research that wasn't officially approved.