Beyonce's $2 Million Car for Hubby Jay-Z Could Have Jump-started a World of Good

OK, so the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Beyonce Knowles gave Jay-Z as a birthday gift can do 250 miles an hour. The flashy sportster can rev from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds. But the cool $2 million check the R&B and pop singer wrote could have made an even bigger splash worldwide.

According to a report in The Sun on December 9^th, Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) already owns several collectible automobiles, including a Ferrari F430 Spider, a Maybach 62S and a Pagani Zonda Roadster. The popular rap star is also an official corporate ambassador for American automaker GMC.

(Still, I don't think Jay-Z would be impressed with my GMC Envoy.)

Jay-Z (41) and Beyonce (29) have been called the highest-earning couple in today's entertainment world, outearning such A-listers as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, David Beckham and Victoria (Posh Spice) Beckham and Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart.

Did Jay-Z really need another set of fabulous wheels? Maybe and maybe not. Still, the bonus gift begs the question:

What could Beyonce have done with $2 million, instead of buying Jay-Z the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport roadster?

Certainly, Beyonce is entitled to spend her fortune however she chooses to do so. However, just for fun, let's consider some other options the pop and R&B star might have chosen.

Jay-Z and Beyonce might have both breathed a sigh of relief, knowing they contributed to plant two million trees through a $2 million eco-friendly gift to The Nature Conservancy.

Beyonce could have honored her husband Jay-Z with a humanitarian gift of 44,444 sets of a dozen chicks for starving families globally, giving to Oxfam International.

The A-list entertainers might have rescued 26,667 children from exploitation by human traffickers in various countries around the world, by giving to the ministries of Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse.

Beyonce and Jay-Z could have purchaseed 20,000 kitchen sinks for homes built for American needy families by Habitat for Humanity.

The former Destiny's Child star could have sponsored 4,762 needy children in the world's most impoverished areas for an entire year through World Vision.

The R&B and rap star could have helped 4,000 needy families in underdeveloped countries to become self-supporting by underwriting the cost of heifers to grow into milking cows through Heifer International.

You get the idea. Many charities desperately need a jump-start in these troubled economic times, from AIDS and cancer research to hunger relief, and from military veterans' services to environmental preservation programs,

If Beyonce had chosen any of these philanthropic and charitable gifts to mark her husband Jay-Z's 41^st birthday on December 4^th, the pair of entertainers would have realized an added bonus, in addition to their own beneficence. The expenditure would have been tax-deductable.

Tell that to the folks that sold Beyonce the brand-new Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport to add to the Jay-C flashy car collection.

What is the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport?

The Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport boasts a 16.4-liter engine with 1,000 horsepower.

Here's a video peek at the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport, , just like the one Beyonce bought for her husband, Jay-Z, for his 41^st birthday on December 4^th.