What can you do with $5000 a Second?
The following is a reprint of a post that I made from my old blog Getting Out Of The Poorhouse: To find out why, see here.
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Stumbled upon this interesting site that is detailing the cost of the war in Iraq. Using my own ’scientific’ method of counting (One Mississippi…Two Mississippi) the war in Iraq costs approximately $5000 a second. Along with the costs estimator, the site also has some pretty neat calculators to determine what the money could buy instead. How much money are we talking about here? For example, with the money spent in the war, 153,995,332 people can have healthcare. According to the US Census Bureau, 45.8 million people in the US are without health insurance as of 2004.
That’s pretty nifty and all, but the title of this post is, ‘What can you do with $5000 a Second?’ Examples of what I would do If I made 5K a second:
Pay of my student loans in 5 seconds
Pay off my mortgage in 34 seconds.
Buy a Lamborghini in 45 seconds.
Buy this yacht in 80 minutes.
Dock my yacht in this mansion in 5 hours.
Buy an F-22 Raptor in 19 hours.
Park the Raptor on USS George H.W. Bush in 10 and a half days
And much more!
That’s the beauty of making $5000 a second. Eveytime you think of something to do with the money - enough time has probably elapsed for you to afford it 
What about you guys?
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