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Annie64 -> RE: What would you do with 3 trillion dollars? (4/20/2008 6:27:12 AM)
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The first thing I'd do would be to sink 30 billion dollars into my denomination. I couldn't give that much to my local church--they wouldn't know what to do with it any more than I would. Some of the $30 bill would go to my local church; I'd at least pay off it's half a million dollar debt. Actually, since the denomination to which I am a member is somewhat small, $30 billion might be a little much for them, too. I'd have to do what another poster said and "shop my tithe around." But it would all be given.
Next I'd pay whatever taxes the government wanted on it so they wouldn't come after me for it. That might be as much as half of it-- $1.5 trillion dollars.
Let's see. That leaves about $1,470,000,000 to pay off all my debts, and all the debts of my family members, send my son this fall to Taylor University, the Christian college to which he has applied and been accepted, but can't go because we can't afford it, pay my other two children's tuition to their Christian school I've been working so they can attend--all the way through to the youngest one's graduation in 2013, sent them wherever they want to go to college, send my niece to college if she wants to go, or pay for her to be trained for whatever career she may want, fix my house up so it can be sold, rented out, or given away to some deserving family, buy a new house in a nicer neighborhood or build one, perhaps in the country where I could have animals. I'd particularly like to have a donkey. I'd name it Puzzle for the one in C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle , the last of the Narnia books. I'd buy a new car for my husband and one for my son who is going to college this fall, and enroll my daughter in driver's ed. My car is perfectly fine but maybe I'd get a new one anyway. I'd get my kids music lessons and take trumpet lessons myself. And I'm running out of things to spend the money on. I doubt I'm anywhere near getting it used up. I guess I'd give some more away to various missions and to Christian colleges and Christian schools, and then put some in the bank to save for retirement. I don't think I'd quit work just yet. I am working at a job I have quit twice. I told my supervisor that what made me quit before didn't exist anymore and if she hired me back I wouldn't quit again. I wouldn't want having a gazillion dollars to make a liar out of me.
I don't think individuals or individual families were meant to have so much money all at once. It creates a lot of problems. Even in my daydreams about it I've had more thoughts of how to use the money to please me and mine and even my less selfish thoughts were about helping out people and causes I personally care about. This has been enormously fun but I think the $3 trillion dollars was best spent exactly where it was spent.
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