What Would YOU Do With 700 Billion Dollars?

Well I would have a very nice home and life for my stbx has already offered to take care of the child support as long as I don't fight him. I have a disability so social security money and insurance would be great but with all this money I could have so much more insurance. I could just live and not have to fight my x FINALLY! With the money I would hope to have a non-profit company to assist people with their divorce's so that they wouldn't have to go to court over the kids, pets, house and all the BS that people go to court for. It's f'd up that to pay someone to figure out what a mediator could tell you or let alone you and your stbx  can discuss b/c you've been married and understand one another but don't want to anymore. Ahhh that felt good to ramble on about issues I've had to hold in for so long.

hmmmmmm Not have to worry about money and ask uncle Sam if he would like a loan.

"...run for congress..." - I found your motivation in this to be a very kind gesture; and, as much as I would like to represent your interest to the best of my capabilities, I fear that I would buckle from special lobby groups... History already has admission of "...lust...", inappropriate use of tobacco products; and, fueling the media with random statements (..."I like to ride my girls without a head gear" actually means "I am an idiot on an Harley-Davidson motorcycle without proper head gear protection"...) from my office would create excessive spending on our infra-structures... Remember: I just got hit on the head with a rock this morning while riding and my senses do tell me that I should change my ways... ;-p

i think bp should run for congress.

Well coming from the shared custody parent standoint, I would make all schools a nine hour day with physical education every day, foreign language, and way more recess every day. Then we wouldn't need any after school care and our kids would be exercising and preparing to operate in our global economy!!

"..." - Child support is a good fiscal policy but in all honesty, I think we could have all of our Congressional Representatives pitching in for a new ice machine, or two, along the Florida Turn-Pike as we keep others from the whims of the "...Ice-Princess..."

What about Medicare? Social Security? Health Care? Any one of these would be helpful. Banking bailout -- not high on my list of priorities. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

i was looking at the stats, felt compelled to research it...and there's something close to a 13 billion dollar debt yearly in uncollected child support.   so that 700 billion could easily pay back all those single parents.

also, the administration for children and families has a federal yearly budget of 1.3 billion (in 2005).  they serve 1 million families.  so basically the 700 billion could fund them for 538 years!

ok, yes. i'm a tad interested in child support.

Pay off all of my debt. Buy a second home with boocoos of land for me and mine to roam.
Invest for my retirement...maybe sell my used sports car for a BRAND new one!
Then I would have to say I have several ideas:
 I have met some kids (one of which my son is dating ) who are foster care kids. I have always said, because of things in my past , that I would love to open a home to help with kids who so much need someone to parent them and to be loved. Maybe I would build a big place and that would be my new line of work?
I also would love to get into some type of family law , whether paralegal or whatever, but it doesn't make enough to support me & mine so then I could afford to do it.
I had a friend that said I should open a divorce counseling center...I could do that.
I know I would NOT want to keep doing what I am! I am tired of the pace. It would allow me to invest in what I feel I want and need to do plus live OH so compfortably!
Some of my ideas have always been in my head but some of them have just come around since being a member of 360.

That's almost too much to consider, and yet it's not enough to do anything.  I wouldn't pay off child support (sorry paula, don't hit me!  ;) ), but I would look into creating a better program that could sustain itself.  Some way of getting the blood from the stone parents who SHOULD be paying the bill...

I think we need more programs like that anyway.  More programs the get people involved in their own lives.  Rather than just throwing money at problems, we need to find ways to create incentive to get people excited and willing to invest in their own lives. Ways to help the homeless and people on welfare, single parent families who are trying, but barely scraping by, children without proper homes.  So many people need help, and 700 billion isn't morsel enough to cure it.

So do we give up?  I think we already do, and that's the problem.  We're so overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem that we fail to try.

Ok, I'm aparently feeling philisophical today.  How do I just get back to feeling frisky?  ;)

- Invest in clean energy and green jobs which are actual investments with a positive pay off!
- Invest in universal health care which would decrease the burden on businesses and taxpayers, putting more money into the economy.
- Free early childhood education and day care so that working parents don't have to worry and that our children get a strong foundation.

I would NOT spend it bailing out a bunch of guys that, between bonuses and compensation, took in over $122 billion last year while they were destroying the economy.

First of all I'd pay off all my bills (I've got plenty of them)

Then, I'd hire bounty hunters (like The Dog) to look for my ex and then when they found him, I'd make sure he went to jail for failure to pay child support (not just to me, but to his other ex's he has kids with). Maybe slip them bounty hunters an extra couple hundred bucks to rough my husband up a bit...

I'd donate a good chunk to my church.

I suppose maybe I would open a low-cost 24 hour daycare center for working single parents with only the best-trained teachers/care-providers.

I'd open a college fund for my kids.

I'd buy a modest house (3 br, 2ba) in a good area, a modest car (maybe a ford focus or fusion).

I'd pay my family off.

I'd stick the rest in an account and live off the interest for the rest of my life.

first of all, child support, yes !!!  But Help on health issues too.  Good ideas

yes. child support please.