How many zeros in a billion?

[geetrue]

This is one of those pass it on emails ... it was full of interesting facts.

So I edited the names out and passed it on:

How many zeros in a billion?

This is too true to be funny.

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 it's 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.

Louisiana Senator,

Mary Landrieu (D)

is presently askingCongressfor

250 BILLION DOLLARS

to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number...

what does it mean?
A.

Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and 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??


Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax

Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)!
Li quor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Su rcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage ChargeTax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax


STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt...

[UnderseaLcpl]

Don't even get me started on government. It's all I can do right now to refrain from posting a 2000 word rant in all caps.

But I'm okay.

[Platapus]

Government in America is like the weather

Everyone complains about it but no one does anything about it.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Government in America is like the weather

Everyone complains about it but no one does anything about it.

Then Libertarians are the weather control machine in development.

Check us out at http://www.lp.org/ or look up the address for your state's Libertarian Party website.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

But unlike the weather, one could do something about it

My point exactly

[mrbeast]

Hmmm......I wonder how many zeros are in a trillion?:hmm:

....or maybe several?

The Iraq war has proved far more costly than the US government thought when it went to war five years ago.

According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the direct costs of the war on terror, which include operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, have so far have reached $752bn, if the current year's appropriation of $188bn is included.

A study by the Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University and Linda Bilmes, a budget expert from Harvard, concludes the cost could be at least $3 trillion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7304300.stm

who knows, there might be a bit of change left over for New Orleans. :hmm:

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

But unlike the weather, one could do something about it

Well this day in age we could do something about the weather too. An example is farmers seeding clouds. Only problem with this is, you tick off the farmers further inland. Again no one is happy unless what you are controlling is out of control.

-S

[geetrue]

It was reported that 9/11 cost this nation over one trillion dollars ...

How much did the USA save taking the battle where it belongs?

Seven years next week and no more attacks on US soil proves something.

[Chad]

In my opinion no amount of money is enough to protect our lives.

[mrbeast]

Originally Posted by geetrue

It was reported that 9/11 cost this nation over one trillion dollars ...

How much did the USA save taking the battle where it belongs?

So why attack Iraq then? It had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed little enough threat to its neighbours nevermind the US. I'd say the US (and the UK too) has squandered more money than you could literally count on a war which has acheived precious little.

Seven years next week and no more attacks on US soil proves something.

Proves about as much as me saying the 'my laptop keeps burglars away. I've had it 3 years and not one burglar in all that time!'

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by mrbeast

Proves about as much as me saying the 'my laptop keeps burglars away. I've had it 3 years and not one burglar in all that time!'

That's got to be undoubtedly the weakest analogy I've seen in my life. Laptops and burglary have absolutely nothing to do with each other (unless a laptop is stolen in a burglary). Think of a better one, Beasty

Edit : Perhaps when someone plows an airliner into the Queen's Palace, you'll understand the sentiment.

Edit 2 : It's real easy to sit back years afterward and find fault in someone else's actions. I'm sure that everyone who thinks that attacking Sadaam (it was, after all Sadaam that we attacked, not the people of Iraq) was the wrong thing to do felt the same way then that they do now

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

That's precisely why the analogy is relevant here, re-read it

I read it the first time, sir The two analogies, IMHO, are not the same, but that's just my opinion.

[Digital_Trucker]

OK, so attacking Sadaam has absolutely no effect whatsoever on terrorism, correct?

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

I'm affraid not

and?:hmm:

[Digital_Trucker]

So, on the one hand, you are saying that the attack on Sadaam had an effect on terrorism, yet it didn't effect terrorism in the US? It only affected terrorism in Iraq?