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WASHINGTON

With Washington trying to finagle a $700 billion rescue with regard to the nation’sitting financial system, the founded on money sought by other projects is starting to look partiality chump change.

You could buy yourself a war by that benignant of money

You could match Franklin Roosevelt on his New Deal and cause to grow him billions greater degree of.

Even in a burgh where billions advance and go without anyone blinking, the money that could go into the Wall Street rescue is eye-popping. The House on Monday voted the floor a proposed $700 billion bailout package, still congressional leaders said they were committed to dire again.

What else could the government do with a $700 billion blank check? There are, well, billions of possibilities.

It could ensure universal health care coverage for six years, for example, or upgrade the country’s most deficient bridges four times over. All the work to upgrade coastal levees that’s been translated since Hurricane Katrina? It’s a entire drop in the notorious $700 billion bucket

You could build 1,750 bridges to nowhere.

Or run an entire country. Seven hundred billion dollars is more than twice the bulk of the economy of Denmark, which had a gross home product of $312 billion in 2007.

Seven hundred billion dollars would buy 70 Hubble-type duration telescopes. Or about seven international space stations. It would finance the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s premier curative exploration institute, for two decades. Or pay the U.S. public intelligence budget in spite of 15 years.

According to the Wall Street Journal, half the money FDR spent on his New Deal program to lift the country out of the Depression and banking crisis was for public works projects. For $250 billion in today’session dollars, the nation got 8,000 parks, 40,000 public buildings and 72,000 schools.

But that’s thinking small.

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