How much is a Billion? Makes one wonder

[physique]

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
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> putting that figure into some perspective in
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> one of it's releases.
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> A..
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> A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
>
> B.
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> A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
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> C.
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> A billion hours ago our ancestors were
>
> living in the Stone Age.
>
> D.
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> A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
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> E.
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> A billion dollars ago was only
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> 8 hours and 20 minutes,
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> at the rate our government
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> is spending it.
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> While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
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> let's take a look at New Orleans ....
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> It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
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> Louisiana Senator,
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> Mary Landrieu (D)
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> is presently asking Congress for
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> 250 BILLION DOLLARS
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> to rebuild New Orleans .. Interesting number...
>
> what does it mean?
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> A.
>
> Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
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> (every man, woman, and child)
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> you each get $516,528.
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> B.
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> Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
>
> New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
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> C..
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> Or... if you are a family of four...
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> your family gets $2,066,012.
>
> Imagine, now $700 billion bailing out banks in the US. That's enough to
> fund complete medical care for every man, woman and child currently
> alive in the US for 11 years!!
>
> 50 billion to bail out the auto industry???
>
> Washington , D.C.
>
> &
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> Ottawa ON.
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> < HELLO!!! >
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> Are all your calculators broken??
>
> Accounts Receivable Tax
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> Building Permit Tax
>
> CDL License Tax
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> Cigarette Tax
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> Corporate Income Tax
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> Dog License Tax
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> Federal Income Tax , Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
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> Fishing License Tax
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> Food License Tax
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> Fuel Permit Tax
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> Gasoline Tax
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> Hunting License Tax
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> Inheritance Tax
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> Inventory Tax
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> IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
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> IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
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> Liquor Tax
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> Luxury Tax
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> Marriage License Tax
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> Medicare Tax
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> Propert y Tax
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> Real Estate Tax
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> Service charge taxes
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> Social Security Tax
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> Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
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> Sales Taxes
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> Recreational Vehicle Tax
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> School Tax
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> State Income Tax
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> State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
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> Telephone Federal Excise Tax
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> Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax upon Tax
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> Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
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> Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
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> Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
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> Telephone State and Local Tax
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> Telephone Usage Charge Tax
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> Utility Tax
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> Vehicle License Registration Tax
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> Vehicle Sales Tax
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> Watercraft Registration Tax
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> Well Permit Tax
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> Workers Compensation Tax
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> Income Tax
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> Everything Tax
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> STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY???
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> Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
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> and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
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> We had absolutely no national debt...
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> We had the largest middle class in the world..
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> and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
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> What happened?
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> Can you spell 'politicians!'

[faller]

Now that is a sweet post!!!!

[Juicy_brucy]

I thought that i seen on the rick mercer report that a billion seconds ago was 1978....

[Anatomy]

I get 31.68808781 years

Money is spent on important things and money is wasted. I'm not defending anyone but in my personal experience you don't always know which is which until after it's done.

[Bowlcut]

He best way to get people to realize that the expected US Fed Deficit for 2009 will be 1,000,000,000,000.
Honestly the way government wastes our money people seem indifferent to any sum lower than $100 billion.

[pinhead]

We need to restructure the whole political system. Too many politicians get into politics for their career's and pocket instead of for the benefit of the people. They fail to realize they are public servants and not our leader's. Most of us don't vote and don't want to be led around. I have a strange feeling we as a people will one day take the power away from politicians and restructure the system where it works for us and NOT FOR THEM OR THE BIG COMPANIES. Until, then, I hope I don't get assassinated for saying what I said in this post :D

[purelife]

politicians suck ass