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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-21-06 04:17 PM
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My price would be enough trillions to change this world forever, starting at the bottom.

According to Jim Wallis, it would cost 8 billion dollars to have basic education worldwide.

It would cost only a little more to feed the hungry worldwide.

It costs less than that to vaccinate kids against diseases they don't need to catch and which occasionally kill them.

It only costs a few billions to assure people of clean water.

It only costs a few hundred millions to get micro loan programs for women started worldwide.

It would only take a few billion to pour into research for renewable energy wordwide.

And it would take a million per Congressman to buy their votes for national health insurance in the US, getting a progressive taxation system written into the constitution, and publicly funding SHORT campaigns for public office.

Then we could work on getting rid of the corporations as persons fiction and the money is speech and not property fiction.

So yes, I'd have a price. It's a price the rich and powerful would not be willing to pay, whether or not they had a clue what I'd do with it.


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