If I Were a Billionaire

I rewrote this, because I thought hard about it one day. A billion dollars, one could spend 50,000 dollars a day for 50 years. Given this exceptionally good condition, I think I would set up an office in Hershey, and have people walk in as clients, and work with them to better their lives, using the money as a means of doing so. I'd have a large property, where I'd develop working skills in people, with farm hands that have experience, and have a free education service--paying teachers to do free public lectures teaching them Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. I'd work with students, teaching them Phonics and Cuing, and also teach them Arithmetic, and do free lectures and tutoring, paying full time salaries to about thirty staff members to do teaching. Then, I'd pay the farmers full time salaries to teach people how to do everyday things, like fix car engines, plough, cultivate crop, garden, clean heavy machinery. That'd be about 50 days worth of money, and then I'd take 50,000 dollars a day and use it to provide for the needs of people, such as college loans to Liberty or Biola university, or HACC, or to house people who have criminal records and give them working skills. I'd also buy cars for people who needed them, and set up no Interest Loan programs for people, that they could voluntarily pay back through the bank. I'd also vet my clientele, as it says "Let the alms sweat in your hand before you give it."

That's a fantasy. 2 Corinthians says you're only obliged to give what you actually have, not what you hope to have, and there's blessing in poverty.



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