what does 6 billion buy?

DaveEstey wrote: Americans spent more than that on Halloween.

Appropriate. Very appropriate.

Got a damn sight more out of Halloween, though.

failboat wrote:

mazdeuce wrote:

DaveEstey wrote: Americans spent more than that on Halloween.

I didn't believe you, so I checked. $8 billion on Halloween. Interesting.

Wow. Well that puts things in perspective doesn't it.

So, give or take a billion $, we paid the same amount for a two separate groups of people wearing masks they put on to conceal their true identities, just so they could come around and take more goodies from us.

"what does 6 billion buy?"

A lot of noise.

There's a saying 'Racing is the conversion of money into noise and smoke'. Doesn't hold a candle to politics.

They can be both good examples of the old joke. "How do you to make a small fortune in (fill in the blank)? Start with a large one"

I know what I'd buy with $6,000,000,000:

Three is all I'd need.

Appleseed wrote: I know what I'd buy with $6,000,000,000: Three is all I'd need.

One to learn on, one to use and one to store as a museum piece?

It's not like the money disappeared. It was spent and moved around. It was put to work! Heck, you could look at it as creating jobs

Keith Tanner wrote: It's not like the money disappeared. It was spent and moved around. It was put to work! Heck, you could look at it as creating jobs

And more importantly, free ducting material for us.

The other two are for parts. 21 were made and one crashed. You won't find parts on E-Bay.

I know a deal on an old cruise ship- made in 1999, and has been refurbished twice. $300M! Can take 3000 of your best friends, and hire 1800 people to cater to you.