Billion Dollars

Mike Bloomberg spent a supposed billion dollars on his failed presidential campaign bid. This seems like a colossal waste of money. For instance, he could have instead bought:

- 20 billion pieces of Double Bubble gum

 - 20,000 Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWDs

 - 50 billion plastic straws

- 11.2 miles of the high-speed coastal rail link between L.A. and San Francisco

- 4 thousand tickets on the Virgin Galactica Spaceship Two suborbital flight

- 5 delegates to the Democrat nominating convention from American Samoa