How about coming some ideas that would actually benefit the country and not just the shareholders.
Really buying a few retailers and/or credit card issuers.......

Here's one: Education

Apple could donate iPads and/or Macbook Air laptops to every K-12 school in the United States and off-set the costs of internet service to those schools that need. They could have workshops highlighting the best apps for educators and how to incorporate them into the curriculum.
Upon high school graduation every student would recieve their choice of the latest iPad or MacBook to take to college.

Here's another: Small Business/Start-ups

If Apple wants to regain its foothold in corporate IT and encourage more developers to migrate to their platform rather than android or windows, then how about giving away they SDK and development devices to start-ups for the next 12-24 months