One of the many fun things about being loaded is getting to think differently about money and what it can fix. There is no waiting time at a restaurant if you palm the maitre‘d a Benjamin. And there is a table with a view available if you pay that nice couple over there $200 to eat somewhere else. I used to get 20 something employees to do things they’d never thought possible when they were suddenly making 6 figures. It’s about thinking outside the box.
The current administration IS the box. So here’s my crazy idea.
Okay, there are an estimated 3.9 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Creating peace and a two state solution in Palestine and Israel goes a long way toward fixing global Arab animosity towards the US, and do more than attacking Iraq has to win the alleged WarOnTerrorTM.
Palestinian monthly median income in 2005 was about $385, let’s call it $5,000 a year. We could hire the entire nation of Palestine, man woman and child for about $19.5 billion a year. Think about it. Peace in the Middle East in our time for an annual price of 2 months in Iraq.
We hire them on the condition that they calm down, take a chill pill, feed the kids, think it all over, maybe take a vacation, see the uncle in Chicago. Maybe we keep them on payroll for 5 years. Maybe 10. How would the image of the US in the Arab world be if we hired the entire country?
I truly believe it would work, and I also believe it will never happen. George Soros? Warren Buffet? Bill Gates? Wanna make a big difference?
4 comments:
I liked your Welcome to Connecticut photo.
Jack
HA HA.
If only.....
PR Wire announcements I'd like to see:
Jan 20, 2008, somewhere in Belize.
JeffLikesToRant Equity Partners, LLC announces LBO of Palestinian Territories
(your plan sure makes more sense than stop-lossing our national guardsmen into semi-permanent employment as riot control police officers in Iraq)
I know a lot of coyotes who would get them into the U.S. to do the work that no one else (oops, except for starving central americans who don't vote anyway) are willing to do. That way, your fee becomes the building block to a better everywhere...hek...there are a reported 12 million Guatemalans undocumented in the USA....the paklestinians could call themselves Puerto Ricans and get away with it toeveryone west of the hudson.
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