If You Won a HUGE Lottery, Do You Think You Could Help End the War?

[qwlauren35]

I'm talking about $500 million.

My thought is to invest it in a few interesting avenues.

- Anti-war hip-hop music. Sponsor contests for lyrics, find someone to air them.
- Billboard messages.
- financing a new Michael Moore type movie

The thing is, even though it seems like a lot of money to ME, it's such a drop in the bucket when it comes to buying a politician... or even getting on TV.


We'd have to find some incredibly creative ways to stretch it out... but MAYBE it would make a difference.

What do you think?

[n2doc]

1. Think tanks, opposition research, candidate support

Basically an inverse Scaife operation. Spend it over 10 years and see how much influence it could buy...

[kcass1954]

2. Buy back the media. n/t

[helderheid]

11. that was my first thought

[BlueIris]

3. Okay, seriously? I've been trying to do that for a while now.

No, seriously, it's one of my hobbies (relax, I only buy tickets when the jackpots are up really, really high and that's only a few times a year). My plan for using the "instant celebrity" of my lottery win to help stop the war would involve scheduling a press conference for the day I cashed the ticket, then going CRAZY to get as much media attention as possible--refusing to say anything to mass media unless it was a statistic about/statement against the war, making really inflammatory statements about the war and those who support it--just generally making a spectacle of myself for as long as possible. After the initial ruckus died down, I think I'd funnel some money to Cindy and other anti-war groups, start throwing money at anti-war candidates, make my own "Fahrenheit 9/11," write a book, etc. Finally, I'd see if reality t.v. had a place for me.

If none of that worked--start my own independent t.v. station. Somehow.

[wuushew]

4. I suppose so

but I dislike lotteries greatly as they are voluntary subsides of the rich.

I guess Iraq War > Class War(for now).

[Tyler Durden]

5. First thing: FREE CLINIC in my home town.

Next thing: 20 million for the premier AIDS research and treatment clinic (don't remember the name...have it in the home computer).

Next thing: No Kill Animal shelters.

[Sammy Pepys]

6. I'd probably direct it elsewhere.

I think it would be better spent on chairites for the poor and things like that.

[AndyTiedye]

7. A Lottery Jackpot Isn't Nearly Enough to Buy a TV Network

[Kelly Rupert]

8. Those wouldn't do a thing, really.

I mean, anti-war hip hop music? Billboards? Americans are already against the war. A better bet (but still one that would probably fail) would be to spend it on lobbying.

[bryant69]

9. I think I would buy a hot tub

But I'm not sure that would be effective in stopping war. Actually I would put my money into candidates rather than media messages.

Bryant
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[JHB]

10. Finance real invesigative journalists

The sort of thing the MSM scuttled during the Reagan administration.

[Wrng myhands]

12. If I won 500 million

I'd be Republican