3-Trillion dot Org

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2008-04-16 07:04pm

The occupation of Iraq will cost $3 trillion, America's most expensive conflict since WWII.
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Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2008-04-16 07:22pm

I bought every corporation in sight and still havent hit the mark.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-04-16 07:30pm

I bought a few private islands, a national highspeed rail network, and a clone of Angelina Jolie. I skipped the moon base, because I couldn't find any rockets for sale.

Mr. Coffee · Post by **Mr. Coffee** » 2008-04-16 07:34pm

I think that's kinda the point... You could spendon every do-gooder, wizbang, and "gee, that'd be cool" and still not spend the full $3 trillion.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2008-04-16 07:36pm

Mr. Coffee wrote:I think that's kinda the point... You could spendon every do-gooder, wizbang, and "gee, that'd be cool" and still not spend the full $3 trillion.

I got close, but with a computer each, food and education for more than 6 billion people, it's hardly suprising.

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2008-04-16 07:36pm

I stuck to buying boring things like ending US dependence on foreign oil, solar energy for all, curing a deadly disease, fending off foreclosure for 100k families, ending hunger and finish the Katrina repair work. Only spent half the $3 trillion though.

Kane Starkiller · Post by **Kane Starkiller** » 2008-04-16 07:37pm

I spent it quite easily: complete US transport infrastructure overhaul, power grid overhaul, switching to wind turbines, switching to solar energy, organic foods and some other stuff but then couldn't buy the "research alternatives for oil" which cost $527 billion and I spent $2.55 trillion. Damn so close.

Darth Onasi · Post by **Darth Onasi** » 2008-04-16 07:39pm

i dun went and bought this since I'm an incompetent no good wastrel who never understood the value of money anyway since daddy always bailed me out.

J · Post by J » 2008-04-16 07:52pm

I managed to blow the budget with massive infrastructure spending. Full energy independance, a whole new rail network, new power grid, and other such big bill items.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-04-16 08:36pm

I bailed out Wall Street. Nearly. Only the CEOs had it good at the end.

What?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2008-04-16 08:38pm

I would dearly love to know how they came up with the prices on some of that...

Oh, and since when have over a million people died in the Iraq war?

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2008-04-16 08:41pm

Rail system, millennium Achievement goals, 50 years more for the Interstate Highway System, Universal Health Care, Fusion reactor, Space Elevator, world peace, Rice For All, Artist grants, 3 B-2s, 2 tuxedos, and some hippy sandals and I still have over 700 million to spend.

Vehrec · Post by **Vehrec** » 2008-04-16 08:47pm

Rogue 9 wrote:I would dearly love to know how they came up with the prices on some of that...

Oh, and since when have over a million people died in the Iraq war?

A lot of the prices seem to have been made up by people visiting the site, with no vetting process to approve them.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2008-04-16 09:52pm

I love how World Peace only costs 70 billion.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2008-04-16 10:20pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
Oh, and since when have over a million people died in the Iraq war?

Lancet study of Iraq civilian deaths as well as ORB
Here's a quick Wiki for the basics
Lancet
ORB Survey, 1.2million dead.

Here's the basic facts.
The Survey method used by Lancet has been used a half dozen times by the Lancet and others in Africa and elsewhere to determine War dead, we(The US Goverment) used it in Kosovo.

However the thing is using this well vetted method results in very large death figures, much higher than the media is reporting or our own Government is reporting(Or used to report)

Despite the high death counts the people during the studies call it conservative, why? Because they exclude statical outliers like Basra is right now, or Fallujah was back in 2003.

So this standard method for counting war dead in a ongoing war zone results in figures ten times the intial bodycount(2003) and six times as high in 2006 and now 9 times as high in late 2007. Well we can't have that so we will attack the hell out of the study and ignore all the other wars where we took it's results at face value.

Or in other words, they likely are at least a million dead Iraq's.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2008-04-16 10:31pm

A silly site when you consider that you can purchase Sauron's Ring for 2 trillion dollars.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2008-04-16 11:08pm

Just out of curiosity, does anyone here know how much in today's dollars WW2 cost the US?

WesFox13 · Post by **WesFox13** » 2008-04-16 11:16pm

Here's what I bought with my $3 trillion http://3trillion.org/carts/21114

Post by **Simplicius** » 2008-04-16 11:47pm

Mlenk wrote:Just out of curiosity, does anyone here know how much in today's dollars WW2 cost the US?

This article pegs it at $5 trillion (5x10e12), adjusted for inflation. Doesn't say in what year's dollars, though.

Darth Onasi · Post by **Darth Onasi** » 2008-04-17 07:35am

Hawkwings wrote:I love how World Peace only costs 70 billion.

That one's just silly, and also ironic considering it would require America to play world police even more than it already does.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2008-04-17 07:44am

The ones concerning feeding the world and ending hunger and povery related illness are based on UN and World Health Organisation studies. And you can manage that about 15 times over in the budget for the iraq war.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2008-04-17 08:20am

Keevan_Colton wrote:The ones concerning feeding the world and ending hunger and povery related illness are based on UN and World Health Organisation studies. And you can manage that about 15 times over in the budget for the iraq war.

Except that, as has been bought up before, the problem is one of organization, transport and politics in the countries affected, not cash.

Side note: I finished the cash quite quickly, with energy, the Beatles back album, and health care. Oh, and some of the fun gadgets

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Warsie · Post by **Warsie** » 2008-04-17 08:53am

nice site.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2008-04-17 09:39am

Well, I made a simple selection.

216 cans of Red Bull for every man, woman, and child.

Or, a sword. Probably 100 cans of redbull AND a sword. I want to see intensely twitchy, jumpy sword fights dooming mankind.