OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 62,000 viewers have viewed the http://www.DressLikePalin.com website this week, scores offering their views on other uses that could have been made for the $150,000 the Republican National Committee famously spent on the wardrobe for Gov. Sarah Palin.

The internet game sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, presents its suggestions on alternatives to the spending spree for what CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro calls the real Marxist in the Presidential race -- "the Neiman Marxist adorned in that fetching $150,000 wardrobe,"

The same $150,000 could buy 15,000 nurses scrubs, for example. The $22,800 the RNC spent on makeup alone would pay for 224 mammograms, 651 flu shots, or provide a supply of cholesterol lower Lipitor for one person for nearly 14 years.

Those viewing the internet game are invited to present their own opinions on how the $150,000 could have been better spent. Among the comments:

    -- I would make a donation to my local university's scholarship fund.
    -- I would buy my mother a new home for which she very much needs.
    -- Shelter for thousands of homeless across the country.
    -- A college education for my daughter.
    -- I would pay off my credit card, save for 2 kids to go to college, give
       some to charity, and whatever is left, stuff in my mattress.
    -- I could get married....
    -- Food for the food bank for 5 years...
    -- A house or perhaps donate to a transplant hospital. My husband needs a
       kidney and I don't think he will get one with Medicare only!
    -- Health care for families where the parent(s) work at WalMart.
    -- I would be able to pay off my house and half of my student loans, which
       cause me to live pay check to pay check.
    -- A modest home and property where my husband and I could retire.
    -- 150,000 would make a really great computer lab in the local public
       school or library.
    -- I'd start a foundation for at-risk high school students.
    -- A house and I would pay for health insurance for myself & daughters
       since I am currently self employed and do not have
       insurance...partially because I worry if I ever used it they would
       cancel it anyway.
    -- Dr. visits for as many as possible!
    -- I'd give it all to the Greater Chicago Food Depository, a food bank.
    -- I would buy back my neighbor's house who lost it to foreclosure due to
       predatory lending.
    -- I would give the $150,000 to the Mother, Child, and Adolescent HIV
       program for which I work.  That money could keep a child on medication
       for 12.5 years.  Most of our families live on less than $10,000 per
       year!
    -- I'd buy healthcare coverage for a month for, yikes, just 10 or 11
       families ...
    -- I would by 15000 warm winter jackets for the homeless at about 10
       dollars each.
    -- A nice school outfit for a foster child with a very limited budget.
    -- Dental care for myself and all my other self-employed, self-insured
       workers.
    -- I would pay off medical bills. One from a thoractomy from two years ago
       for me, one also from two years ago and my son was uninsured because he
       had a "pre-existing condition" from when he was born nine years ago.
       Someone decided since I was induced due to toxemia that he was
       premature. Now I have to pay $5,000 for his broken arm because someone
       decided it was bad that he needed speech therapy at 3 yrs old, he was
       "premature" at 8 1/2 months and takes Ritalin...
    -- Textbooks for inner city children.
    -- Membership in Environmental organizations opposed to Drilling in the
       Alaskan natural Wildlife Preserve.
    -- Five full time case workers at our local domestic violence program, for
       a year, with benefits.
    -- Food for refugees in Darfur.
    -- My husband just had to close his business after 22 years of hard
       work--I would have used the money to help him keep his business or to
       help my two sons finish college.  I also would have my husband use the
       time off to get his bachelor's degree.  He went to trade school and was
       a successful business owner (like Joe the plumber) until "W" got hold
       of this country and ruined it.  It is too bad Sarah is not a nurse-we
       all could think of millions of humanitarian ways to spend that kind of
       money.
    -- Pay for the experimental cancer treatment that would help my daughter
       live longer.
    -- Her boots cost almost as much as my rent! Good thing I get food Stamps!
    -- I would donate it to the children's cancer community my non-profit that
       helps families with a child with cancer.
    -- Body armor for ALL our troops overseas.
    -- The Lobbyist Lunch Special for Two at Jack Abramoff's favorite
       restaurant.

SOURCE California Nurses Association|National Nurses Organizing Committee