5 ways $92M could be put to better use than parade

With President Trump's military parade budget careening out of control at more than seven times the original cost, and who knows what such a march may cost next year, here are five ways $92 million could be put to better use.

You could buy 1,415,602 American Red Cross 72Hour Supply Buckets. Each bucket contains ration packets with enough food to feed a family of four for three days. With that money you could feed Puerto Rico's hurricane-ravaged population of 3.5 million citizens for about a week. You could buy more than 1 billion 16.9-ounce bottles of Pureau water for Flint, Mich., residents. That comes out to about 10,000 bottles of water for each of the city's 103,000 inhabitants.

The Fill A Backpack program provides free backpacks loaded with grade-appropriate supplies for schoolkids. With the average cost of $107.76 of supplies needed by each kid, that would fill 853,749 backpacks — furnishing every child in Oklahoma with free supplies for an entire school year.

With all childhood vaccines costing $1,170 per kid, on average, $92 million would immunize 78,632 children from potentially fatal diseases like whooping cough, diphtheria, polio and measles.

For $92 million, you could purchase 368 million oak tree seedlings. That's 317,241 acres' worth of new trees, which is more than 1.5 times the size of New York City.