Let’s say you had $500,000,000,000 and 150,000 able-bodied men and women at your disposal, as well as a huge mess of heavy equipment, weapons and information. The only restriction on how you can spend the money and deploy the people and other resources is that you have to use it all to advance the best interests of the American people. So, what would you do?
Remember, you can do a lot of really good or really bad things with this money and these resources, so spend them wisely.
I would buy the most awesome computer in the world and start redundant threads all day long.
Just a guess, but I would probably try to use the assets in a place where I might get the leverage required to change the world.
I’d have them work on my robot…
my girl robot
This is going to be the best prom night ever
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Can I send everyone home and just keep the cash?
The only restriction on how you can spend the money and deploy the people and other resources is that you have to use it all to advance the best interests of the American people.
So this is strictly- really strictly- hypothetical, then.
Come on, Art, I’m not going to let you get away with that. Also, you need to explain specifically how your proposed change to the world will benefit American taxpayers, whose money your spending.
Educate, integrate, communicate.
Those are the three things I would do.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
It might be that it wouldn’t benefit the taxpayers, but only their grandchildren.
Freedom has been breaking out all over the world during my entire lifetime. Prosperity has been breaking out all over the world during my entire lifetime. I suspect a connection.
Educate, integrate, communicate.
Those are the three things I would do.
I like it. It rhymes, too!
Tour De America… Starting in Seattle then going South down the coast through Arizona and up towards the Rocky Mountains for a few wicked climbs. Finishing in New York
You know, if we controlled the world’s oil due to our invasion of Iraq then that would be a worthy cause that I could definitely support. I’m all up for liberating oil.
Yeah, theft by force is all cool, and stuff.
Theft by force is kind of the way we acquired Texas, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Buy a lot of land. Hire quality ecology/horticulture/agriculture specialists to teach the people living there about sustainable farming, logging, renewable local energy (wind, solar, bio mass, water wheels what ever works in the area). Move into the cities and buy a little land so the other group could setup markets to sell their product. Create an ad campaign to let people know its cool to support other people (not that corporations are bad but it is easier to get people to buy from other people than from corporations). Tell the people that I’m taking 5% of their revenues after the third year to startup the same project in other areas.
Send young people to college in 3rd world countries to help teach in rural areas, the money would come with strings so you get people who want to teach and are willing to go back to rural areas for a few years. Provide materials for each area until they are self sustaining.
Buy a crap load of ePO and dominate local sprint races
Fund research on horrible but unprofitable diseases (river blindness, sleeping sickness, and others).
Start breeding a city of super-hotties for my private collection (see hottie thread for prototypes)
Well, that makes it all OK, then. Just so long as something’s been done before, it must be alright.
Heck, this country was built on the backs of slaves. Once we seize all the oil over there, let’s throw all the Arabs in shackles in make them do chores for us.
Stalinist-type purge on right wing conservatives, free season passes to the ski area of your choice for the rest of humanity, free beer on Fridays. That should about cover it.
Stalinist-type purge on right wing conservatives,
Good luck with that. You might have all the money in this hypothetical, but we still got all the guns. 
Create a hydrogen economy.
we still got all the guns
I knew it - damn! Okay, skip the purge. Just free passes and free beer. Hope you have room in Idaho for a few million winter time visitors.