The Road to Black: Seven hundred billion or else

Here's what you could do with $700,000,000,000 (from jbreazeale, from dihard):

Give every person in the US $2,300 or give every household $6,200. (Think about it another way: this will cost each person in the US $2,300.)
Pay the income taxes of every American who makes $500,000 or less a year.
Fully fund the Defense, Treasure, Education, State Veterans Affairs and Interior departments next year, as well as NASA.
Buy gasoline for every car in the US for 16 months.
Buy every NFL, NBA, and MLB team and build each one a new stadium - and pay your players $191 million each for a year
Create the 17th largest economy in the world - roughly equal to that of the Netherlands.
Or you could pay off just 7% of the $9.8 trillion national debt

But to hear about half of Washington D.C. and most of the people I've heard on the radio talk, instead we MUST buy a bunch of bad debt with it RIGHT NOW OR THE SKY WILL FALL IN ON OUR HEADS!

I wonder what you think of Dave Ramsey's so-called "Common Sense Fix"? It certainly sounds like a better idea than what was defeated in the House yesterday.