How to spend it.

Say you had a trillion dollars. It's a nice round figure. And say you were in a position of leadership of a country.

How would you spend it?

- Destroy some bridges and bunkers on the other side of the world, then oppress the citizens of those countries for a decade?

- Give it to your friends so they can save their failed financial institutions (which they ran into the ground) and still earn their year end bonuses while simultaneously screwing over the individual shareholders and taxpayers?

- Universal healthcare for all citizens of your country, along with lots of nice brand new hosptials?

- Repair all the 50+ year old crumbling transportation and utilities infrastructure with environmentally responsible and sustainable options?

I'm rather disappointed that given this situation the former two choices won out over the later.

Why pay taxes or give time and effort to support the system that consistently makes these decisions? There has to be a better way.

I know I know - all these bad choices haven't affected day to day life yet - though yet is the key word. Other countries have lived through rough financial times and come out the other side intact - but why with all the productivity/prosperity that is possible is a rough financial time even an option for this country.

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In that day to day life - http://www.skilletstreetfood.com/ - 3 people in an old Airstream trailer serving up decent lunch food in and around downtown Seattle - different location every day - many local ingredients (the berry crisp was great) and the food is well prepared overall (fried chicken was too greasy but still flavorful).

Also the local Greek Orthodox church is holding their fall festival this weekend - looking forward to the spanakopita.