So, What Could Porkulus(1) Buy?

The Boston Globe is there

  • Pay every US elementary school teacher’s salary for 11 years
  • Pay off all US student debt
  • Romney’s Utah ski home – more than 149,000 times over
  • More than 45 million Pontiac G5s
  • 1,760 Celtics teams
  • Cover money lost in Madoff’s Ponzi sheme – 16 times over
  • Pay the salary of Massachusetts’ top-paid worker for the next 1,283,713 years
  • Over 19.6 billion digital TV converter box coupons
  • More than 222 billion Big Macs
  • Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum collection – 2,248 times over

In Southern and others:

  • 136,869,565,217 chicken tenders lunch specials (with toast) at Shane’s Rib House
  • 2,314,705,882 Walther P22’s
  • 209,866,666,667 boxes of the Winchester .22 ammo I like
  • 3,148,000 Combines at a cost of 250K each
  • 7,870,000,000 for $100 worth of fishing supplies, including worms
  • 78,7007,870 stormtrooper costumes
  • 524,666,666 laptops at a cost of $1,500 each. Enough for every resident of the US, including the illegals
  • 757,459 Casablancas
  • 17,492,776,172 Country Combo gift packs
  • 10,493,333,333 pirate costumes
  • 30,269,230 bass boats with trailer
  • 1,210,769,230 3 day packages to Disney World. If we bump up the price to include airfare and food where necessary, every single American could go and still have money for the t-shirt
  • 393 Seawolf class subs
  • 1,124 Obama campaigns
  • 5503496503 proctology exams. Works out to be about the same thing as Porkulus(1)
  • 19,675,000,000 bottles of Jack Daniel’s. That’s 65 bottles for each of us. We’re gonna need them
  • 47,725,894,481.5 Papa John’s $16.49 large pizzas with 1 topping and parmesan breadsticks delivered to the White House. Tip not included.

What else is there?

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Posted by William Teach on February 19, 2009 5:23 pm

» Filed Under Barack Obama, Earmarks, Economy, News

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