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William F. Buckley once said
he "would rather live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in
the Boston phone directory than in one governed by the 2,000 members of
the Harvard faculty." Times change. I wouldn't want anyone
from the Boston phone book, but will suggest that 2000 small business
owners chosen at random would yield a far better gummint than that from
the self serving snots we have now. Cuzzin Rickey throws more
salt at my bleeding back.
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The next time you hear a politician use the word "billion" in a casual
manner, think about whether you want the "politicians" spending YOUR
tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising
agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in
one of its releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at
New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division .
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Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress
for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans.? Interesting number, what does
it mean?
- A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.
- B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
- C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.
Washington, D.C .. HELLO!!! .. Are all your calculators broken??
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“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.”
ReplyDeleteEverett Dirksen (Senator, 1896-1969)
I was with them until the part about New Orleans. Yes Mary asked for way too much, but this is exxageration in the extreme. Talking about the "484,674 residents of New Orleans" is like addressing the Budget of New York City and dividing by only the inhabiltants of Manhattan, leaving out Brooklyn and Queens, etc. There were well over a million people in the metro area before Katrina, and there still are if you count the commuter cities like Covington/Mandeville, LaPlace, and the west bank. So that's only a quarter million per person, is that too much to ask? :o)
ReplyDeleteWhats the difference between million and billion? If you have a million $ to spend and $1000 a day to spend. You would run out of money in 2 3/4 years. And a billion $ to spend and $1000/day. You run out of money in 2740 years.
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