This is the first edition of a new category I’m placing on BipolarNation.com called If I Ruled America.
I’m not going to walk around with signs protesting like an idiot. I’m going to put what I want in clear writing and publish it online.
With “If I Ruled America,” I’m not going to pre-suppose I was president – everything’s going to be done my way. I couldn’t get anything like what I’m about to propose done if I wasn’t an absolute dictator. I don’t need a pesky Congress filled …

So I’m doing this, right, which calculates what we could be doing with the money we’re spending on Iraq. For instance, we could have bought enough items on the McDonald’s dollar menu to feed the world about a gajillion times.
But look at these terrible trade offs. Instead of fun things like “free gas for a year,” we get these:

How much healthcare we could provide
How many elementary school teachers we could hire (are you kidding?)
How many music and art teachers we could hire
Housing units

What is this? The only …