proposed White House Health Care Plan<\/a> <\/p>\n\u2022 According to Forbes, the combined wealth of Richie Rich and Tony “Iron Man” Stark<\/p>\n
\u2022 The estimated total dollar amount lost by investors in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme<\/p>\n
\u2022 Enough to give $31,000 to every person in North Dakota<\/p>\n
\u2022 Three times the total cost (including infrastructure improvements) of putting on the 2010 Winter Olympics<\/p>\n
\u2022 Twice what Vancouver stands to earn from hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics<\/p>\n
\u2022 8x the current global box-office receipts for Avatar<\/p>\n
\u2022 Almost double Haiti’s GDP and equal to the combined GDPs of the World Bank’s bottom 20 nations<\/p>\n
\u2022 10x the estimated cost of the Toyota recall<\/p>\n
\u2022 The cost of the Command\/Service Module used in the Apollo Moon landing mission<\/p>\n
\u2022 25x the combined total annual income of the world’s top 20 athletes (including endorsements)<\/p>\n
\u2022 $5 billion less than Harvard’s total endowment<\/p>\n
\u2022 20x the value of the University of Delaware’s endowment<\/p>\n
\u2022 12X what Google paid to acquire YouTube<\/p>\n
\u2022 3x the amount of money lost gambling on the Las Vegas Strip in 2009<\/p>\n
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