If you had?$4 billion to spend on anything in the world, how would you spend it? Well what we just spent that amount of money on is the election of a bunch of Republican buffoons. As if the election wasn’t despairing enough, thinking about the waste of all that money is even more depressing. What could we have done with it? The Coffee Party USA pulled together an amazing infographic that shows us what kind of difference that amount of money could make if put to better use.
Pulled together by If You Only News (a great new website, BTW…be sure to check them out and like their Facebook page):
1. Housing and social services for 397,970 homeless people for a year at $10,051 each. It currently costs $31,065 per person to keep chronically homeless people homeless.?(source: Central Florida Commission on Homelessness via?Think Progress).
2. Smaller class sizes in public schools?for two and a half years (at $1.5 billion annually,?source:?NEA).
3. Pay 133,333 low-wage, American workers a living wage of $15 per hour.
4. Install solar systems in 391,772 homes?(at?$10,210 each, source:?Wholesale Solar.Com).
5. 100 Ebola treatment centers in West Africa (source:?12NewsNow).
6. Put 536,315 more kids in Head Start. $7,600. per child (Source: OHS)
7. 10 years of water services for impoverished Detroit residents, at an annual cost: $363,771,200 (Source:DWDS).
8. Spay/Neuter 71,428,571 feral cats, at an?average cost $56.oo per cat (Source:?Wikipedia).
9. Start 2,000,000?community gardens with $2,000 apiece (community gardens cost between $1,000 and $4,000 to start, according to?The Greenest Dollar).
10. Feed 3,753,049 more low-income children free lunches all year long. At $2.93 per lunch x 365 days per year, that’s?$1065.80 per child. The USDA works with local food banks?to provide children with meals when school is out, but some communities are under-served. ?(Source: USDA)
Here’s the ?What would you do with $4 billion?? infographic.
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