I was putting together some figures this morning and stumbled upon something. What would $1,625,000,000 buy?A lot, right?Well, I guess that depends on what you’re buying.Why $1,625,000,000, you ask? Stay with me for a moment.
It could certainly create a lot of jobs and we have a lot of unemployment in this country right now. It could certainly fund a lot of small businesses and that is always an essential ingredient to ending a recession. Nowadays it seems everyone is either talking about the economy, the housing market, government bailouts or job losses.
So what would $1,625,000,000 buy?I did some research. This is quite interesting.
It would buy 580,357,143 gallons of gas for your car or…
464,285,714 gallons of milk at $3.50 per gallon or…
1,083,333,333 hotdogs at “Gray’s Papaya” in NYC or…
4,040,055,249 meals for the homeless in America (that’s right over 4 billion) or…
payoff .2% (2/10ths of 1%) of the Federal TARP program to bailout “needy” banks.
So how do I arrive at $1,625,000,000? It’s the collective amount of money timeshare owners can save this year. There are 6,500,000 timeshares around the world.If all timeshare owners around the world used TimeshareJuice.com for their exchange service this year timeshare owners would have a collective savings of $1,625,000,000 in timeshare fees. By eliminating your annual membership fee and your exchange fees owners would save about $250 each.
That might not be much money to our political leaders but it is to us.
And not only can we feed a lot of needy individuals, buy a lot of gas and pay back a lot of the government debt…(err well maybe not that last one) but if 6.5 million timeshares are traded that means a lot of people are going on vacation. And by the sounds of things a lot of people could really use that.
I’m open to suggestions, what else can $1,625,000,000 buy?
Source for homeless meals: URM.org $36.20 per month x 3 meals per day. Union Rescue Mission is a fantastic organization feeding, housing, and teaching the homeless in LA.
Source for TARP: If you are interested in depressing yourself even more by researching our government debt, here it is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble…Relief_Program