If you were given $10 BILLION to solve one issue, what would it be?

[charlie and algernon]

Warren Buffet has selected YOU to run a foundation built to solve one issue/problem in the world. You get to decide the issue/problem to solve. What would it be?

Do you put it towards AIDS research? Do you build 10,000 multi-million dollar schools? Create literacy programs? Rebuild crumbling infrastructure? Hunger in Africa? Do you give every American under the poverty line $100,000?

You can only focus on ONE (1) issue/problem. What is it?

[AngryAmish]

1. Building the perfect IPA

[trumad]

2. Destroying the Murdoch empire.

[cliffordu]

3. Infrastructure. Jobs, jobs, jobs.

And a round for the house.

[rucky]

4. climate change n/t

[glinda]

17. Yes. Create solar jobs and replace oil, gas, coal, asap

[glinda]

19. 2nd choice: use it to vote out all of the conservatives.

[postulater]

5. Jailing Bush, Cheney and their henchmen.

[provis99]

6. give every last dollar to homeless people.

[rpannier]

7. Ending the conservative think tanks nt

[LynneSin]

9. $10billion dollars is a drop in the bucket for conservative think tanks

they've got alot more then that to fund their causes.

[LynneSin]

8. Cure Menstrual Cramps

Trust me -you men would be so much happier if we didn't have this crap to deal with every month.

[DainBramaged]

Defeat ALL Republicans

[lunatica]

10. Green infrastructure and green industry

Thereby making Global warming central to the issue of creating jobs and taking care of our planet at the same time.

[dana_b]

22. I'm with you n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

26. +10000.

[Forkboy]

34. Yup.

:thumbsup:

[Warpy]

11. I'd buy congressmen to vote for labor instead of the rich

We know how easy they are to buy. Just look at Lieberman, Barton, and the rest of the scum who are owned by one industry or another.

Once a good part of Congress is in my pocket, I'd start instructing them, Koch style (they're used to it), to rebuild a sane and regulated economy and once that was done, I'd instruct them in taking on AIDS and hunger worldwide, something that means distributing the aid as well as supplying it so that dictators can't sell vital drugs and food for hard currency to buy weapons.

I can't solve all the world's problems. However, by starting here, I could likely make a dent in some of them.

[SidDithers]

12. Dildo ads at DU...nt

Sid

[cybildisobedience]

13. take two basic first steps

First, I would overhaul the American electoral system to make it fair, transparent and as resistant to fraud as possible.

Second, I would fund a media outlet that would put a station based on truth, fairness and accuracy in at least as many homes as FOX.

If we had those two things, many of the problems would at least start to take care of themselves. But with whatever money is left, I'd fund a jobs program similar to the Depression-era WPA, which would put people to work in community-based projects that would address infra-structure issues, provide vital services and engender pride in both productive work and the end results.

[freshwest]

23. +1

[Wait Wut]

14. Kids.

Teaching, feeding, housing, protecting. Start at the bottom and the future improves.

$10billion would build a lot of schools for at risk kids. Probably have some left over to provide better care to orphaned/abandoned children. Maybe programs to encourage adoption of older kids.

[MrScorpio]

15. Training engineers and architects to rebuild cities, a new manufacturing base...

And a infrastructure that uses renewable energy sources

The country would look like Rotterdam after I'm done with it

[w8liftinglady]

25. I like your idea!

[LiberalAndProud]

16. Low income housing.

That's it. That's where my billion would go. When people have homes, they have hope. I would make tent cities and car camping a nightmare of the past.



Edit it add: bobbolink, where are you?

[MichiganVote]

18. Stem cell research.

[Wwagsthedog]

20. End all wars! nt

[bowens43]

21. my purchase of a small south pacific island.......

[taterguy]

24. BICYCLES FOR EVERYONE!

Well, you couldn't buy a bike for everyone on the planet for 10 billion.

Maybe upgrade US infrastructure so using petroleum would be a choice instead of something forced on people.

If we weaned ourselves from the oil habit we could focus on a lot of other problems.

[Cereal Kyller]

27. My complete lack of yachts

Seriously, I don't even have ONE! :cry:

[Hawkowl]

28. Laboratory grown meat

And other ways to grow food without wasteful and immoral animal cruelty.

[Motown_Johnny]

29. Bio Fuels that actually work (not corn based ethanol)

If done properly this 10 billion could be an investment that repays itself so that the income from the fuels could be placed toward solving another problem, possibly mass transit (that runs on the fuels we would be producing).


Again, mass transit could be done so as to provide a steady income back into the foundation so that another problem could be addressed with that income. Infrastructure for the mass transit that runs on the fuels that we would be producing seems like a logical next step.


By then I will have died of old age and it will be someone else's problem.

[OneGrassRoot]

30. Food and water

Make sure there are healthy, sustainable food programs, and water, for everyone.

We can't survive without either of those.

Then tackle housing, health, education, etc.

[shanti]

31. a free, clean source of energy worldwide

that would solve a lot of problems, imo.

[Incitatus]

37. +1

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. I'd cure Acne and Male Pattern Baldness. Wait, that's two...

Okay, Acne. It was the single worst thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life. I had it baaaaaad. It kept me from being who I really was.

I do hate Male Pattern Baldness though... nope. Acne. I'd cure Acne.

[sabrina 1]

33. I would spend it on getting real progressive democrats

elected to Congress in numbers so big they would be too big to defeat. If we had that, it would take care of all the other issues.

[TBF]

35. The media - I'd start an anti-capitalist news channel. nt

[Blasphemer]

36. Animal Cruelty

I believe that cruelty to animals is directly related to the callousness in humankind that allows things like poverty, inadequate health care and illiteracy to plague the world. Starting with the "least of these" would go a long way towards changing overall moral attitudes.

[jmowreader]

38. Jobs.

If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day.

If you teach a man to fish, he eats for life.

But if you build a cannery and put lots of people to work packing fish, everyone eats.

I will start a conglomerate named The Cannery and it will run by three rules: never hire a lobbyist, never buy another company unless we're going to employ all their workers, and never try to get taxes reduced or regulations repealed.