Billions & billions

What is a billion?
Boone Pickens described it good back in the seventies when Dan Rather was interviewing him. Rather said, being a millionaire I need to ask you this question. Pickens replied excuse me son but I am not a millionaire, I am a billionaire. Rather said I am sorry billionaire, millionaire what's the difference? Pickens replied "Well son, if you were to stack $100 bills that would make up a million dollars, that stack would be 100 feet high. The same stack in $100 bills for a billion dollars would be slightly higher than the Empire State bldg., and that my son is the difference!"
feet.
20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
New Orleans. It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division . .
Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild
New Orleans. Interesting number. What does it mean?
gets $2,066,012.
broken??
world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.






The Bottom Line: If the Treasury simply took the $700 Billion and started paying off taxpayer mortgages, they could pay off every mortgage in the country worth less than $75,000... Or put another way, $700 Billion could pay off well over half of all outstanding first mortgages in the entire country.
SOMEBODY IS NOT WATCHING OR READING! WE'RE NOW TALKING TRILLIONS INSTEAD ! Next time let's elect someone who at least took basic economics.
3/11/2009 - Congress at work: '$1 billion an hour'
“In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus,” McConnell says. “To put that in perspective, that’s about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour"most of it borrowed. There’s simply no question: government spending has spun out of control.”

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- Sen. Everett Dirksen
Now, these problems have one root, folks: liberal Democrats. Sorry to say it, but it's true! You can trace the massive expansion of entitlements to FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society programs. You can argue about the motives: whether these entitlements were born from good intentions, or whether they were designed to create dependency among large swaths of Americans, ensuring Democrats' eternal power. But you can't argue with the results. Unreformed, they will bankrupt the nation.
And you cannot argue with one more thing. Even now, Democrats are proposing more massive entitlements -- health care, education, and to cripple the private-sector economy over the global warming hoax. And that's why I continue to tell you it's not Iraq, but the vision of the country's future, that's the central issue of next year's presidential election. Make book on it.
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4.5 billion years ago the Earth did not exist.
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13.73 billion years ago was when Scientists claim the Big Bang happened before which according to them nothing existed. (maybe just taxes)
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3,100 billion is what the government budget is ~ for this year.


Appropriations To Carry Out Rebates- (1) IN GENERAL- Immediately upon the enactment of this Act, the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008: (A) DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY- (i) For an additional amount for `Department of the Treasury--Financial Management Service--Salaries and Expenses', $64,175,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009. (ii) For an additional amount for `Department of the Treasury--Internal Revenue Service--Taxpayer Services', $50,720,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009. (iii) For an additional amount for `Department of the Treasury--Internal Revenue Service--Operations Support', $151,415,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009. (B) SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION- For an additional amount for `Social Security Administration--Limitation on Administrative Expenses', $31,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008.


So the cost of the stimulus package is $297,310,000 ... that just a might over a 1/4 b ... just a fraction of a single governmental slug ... just a might bit more than we spend in Iraq every day ... just pocket change.




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4.5 billion years ago the Earth did not exist.
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13.73 billion years ago was when Scientists claim the Big Bang happened before which according to them nothing existed. (maybe just taxes)
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3,100 billion is what the government budget is ~ for this year.

Overall, the Treasury will distribute more than $110 billion to 130 million taxpayers by July.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/25/news/economy/rebate_update/?postversion=2008042514






BOMBSHELL: European banks took big slice of aid...
Hundreds of billions of dollars...
Fed reveals global extent of its backing...
BANK OF AMERICA Becoming 'Bank of Asia' as Revenue Increases 30% ...
MORE SECRETS: Fed Withholds Data for $885 Billion in Loans...

SANTA CLAUSE: FED AID WENT ALL OVER; COMPANIES, BANKS, OFFSHORE

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