A Billion

[flbassman]

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
250BILLION 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??

Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)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)
Liquor 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 Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and L ocal 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...
We had the largest middle class in the world...
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?
Can you spell 'politicians!'

[BigBassin144]

Here's another way to look at a billion. This was the explanation our trig teacher gave us after no one was shocked at the 700billion the goverment is bailing out companies with.

Your very rich uncle just died, and his is will, it say you have the choice of 1 million or 1 billion dollars. Which would you choose?

(yeah, I chose the billion too.)

Then it says, the only thing you have to do count the money 1 dollar at a time, then it is yours. Now which do you choose? (getting harder, huh?)

Let's say you can count 1 dollar every second (which you can't when you get into the higher number like 750914, 750915, etc.). And say you quit your job and count your money 8 hours every day. Do you know how long it will take you to count your million?

approximately 3 months. I'd give up my job and count money 8 hours a day for 3 months for a million dollars.

Now, given the same stats ($1 per second for 8 hours a day), how long to you think it would take you to count the billion?

94 years.

Kind of puts it in perspective. (by the way, which would you choose now, lol.)

BB

[WTL]

BigBassin, thats a good one too.


I think I'd buy one of those money counting machines that casinos have an wait 20 years however....

[Jim80]

That was a good read all the way around Def gave me a good laugh .

Jim

[ROBZILLA]

Thats why I'm glad I still live in Canada, at least we are not that far behind the 8 ball. I'ts going to take the act of God, and or a lot of hard work to get you guys out of the pickle your in.

[kicking bass]

Man, if that don't put it in perspective nothing will. Damn polititians, I will be PO.d the rest of the evening...LOL

[MississippiBoy]

Kicking:
Just add one tumbler, 2 ice cubes, and a little Scotch. I'm never pissed about anything after a few minutes...

[bamabassman]

mississippi i use TO KILL YA!!! 3 shots and hit da floor!! hahahahaha.

[kicking bass]

I don't know......a billion is alot. I'm a thinkin' I gotta go with three shots and repeat when necessary.

[doc]

We did have a national debt 100 years ago. Other than that good article.

[mont_lunker_hunter]

Isn't it weird how the more you work the less you have, but the more you sit on your a$$ (I'm talking to you New Orleans), the more you get...free! Think about it folks these, people didn't have enough since to leave a freakin' hurricane when they lived in a bowl! I bet when KFC and Koolaid heard about the billion dollar plan for New Orleans their stock tripled.