How would you spend $175 billion?

Roughly $100 billion was flushed down the toilet of religion last year. A large chunk of that goes to fuel anti-scientific lobbying, elect theocratic politicians and further America's national epidemics of ignorance and superstition.

$12 billion every single month goes to further Bush's war, deteriorate our military's readiness and home grow terrorists everywhere.

You want to know how I would spend that $172 billion each year? Technology. Technology that will allow us to get food and fresh water to the entire globe, eradicate epidemics, completely move away from oil and carbon-based energy...

In short, I'd use it to solve our problems, rather than further them.