The federal government has well exceeded the $1 trillion mark in the War in Iraq. It's even gotten to the point where people are thinking: what else could we do with that much money? Rob Simpson has 50 answers to that question in his new book, What We Could Have Done With the Money, and some of those answers are bizarre.
"Definitely paving the streets with gold," Simpson said by phone from his home in Tennessee. "That's about as silly as you can get."
Simpson also said that the government can build exact replicas of each of the wonders of the world and put them in America with the money. But Simpson says the real issue is that nobody seems to grasp the amount.
"We can't appreciate what they really represent and that leaves people divorced from the issue," Simpson said.
Some students don't even understand how to spend that much money.
"I couldn't even begin to imagine that much money, I can't," SU Senior Allison Gibbons said. "It's phenomenal to me that they've even managed to spend that much."
Onondaga County Legislator Tom Buckel (a Democrat) had some opinions on the matter at hand as well. Unfortunately, none of what he said could make it into the actual package. So with that in mind, here are a few of the highlights from my extensive interview with him.
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