換算

附文是美國人換算刺激經濟方案可以換成什麼。
在陳水扁第二任任期時，媒體與藍營人物最喜歡把所有的政策換算成營養午餐，把經濟成長率連結到執政成敗。
現在，馬英九第一任期時，政策更爛了，但沒有人把這些爛政策換算成營養午餐了，經濟成長成了全球跳水冠軍，也沒有人連結到自殺率。

我懷念以營養午餐做為準法定貨幣、自殺率為執政成敗指標的年代。

How Big is $787 Billion? What Would It Buy?

from CARPE DIEM by Mark J. Perry

The latest estimates for the stimulus package are about $787 billion, a number so mind-numbing large it's hard to even imagine a number of that size.

Yesterday's "The Gartman Letter" puts it in perspective for us:

$787 billion would buy 4.6 million homes here in the US at the most recent median price of $170,300 for January 2008.

$787 billion would send a check for $2,623 to every man, woman and child in the US.

$787 billion would fund 7.7 million four year scholarships to the average private university in the US at current tuition rates.

$787 billion would fund 30 million full four year scholarships to the nation’s public universities.

$787 billion would buy 27.7 million cars at the average price of an automobile sold last year in the US.

$787 billion would fund four full months of a tax holiday in the US.