nurkvinny Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 As with most things, this was swiped from another forum... Here's something thought provoking- 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 . Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number, what does it mean? Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516, 528. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets $1, 329,787 Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012. Washington, D.C. !!!...........................Are all your calculators broken???? Maybe everyone should just flood their houses, then we can all be on the "big easy" street for the rest of our lives, and forget about working, and paying taxes and all that useless stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 hehe yeah I think there calculators are broken. Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquirrelyNutsDSP Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 A $250 BILLION expenditure to rebuild a city that should, by all rights, be underwater. See, I figure what happened to Atlantis was the result of an engineer stepping in and saying: "Whoa whoa whoa guys, could we at least rebuild this on a dry piece of ground?" You can only fight the natural order of things for so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 $250bill isn't much when you have the government spending it. Or, i should say, it doesn't get much done when the government is spending it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1647545494 Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 if your dumb enough to live below sea level you deserve to drown.... I hope that bill never passes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 + 250 billion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan9381 Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 while i dont think that much of N.O. shoudl be rebuilt, think of it this way. no all that money will be going to individual households. there is cleaning up to do, businesses to rebuild, roads to repair, downed power line poles to put back up, levees to rebuild. etc etc. like i said. i dont think much, if any of NO should be rebuilt, but when they talk about those numbers, its not just going to getting people down there a new home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 who cares... we shouldn't have to spend our tax dollars for them... just like we shouldn't be spending out tax dollars to help countries over seas... This should be handled on a state level and never brought to the federal level... end of story. Why should my taxes raise because these idiots decided to live in a fish bowl? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Why should my taxes raise because these idiots decided to live in a fish bowl? Because this is a place called "Society". If you wan't Dog-eat-Dog, move to Sierra Lion or Rowanda. You get fucked, your neighbors help you out. One of them gets fucked, you help them out. Every major city in this nation is waiting to fall victim to natural disaster. The ones everyone probably thinks of, like LA or San Fran, aren't the only places total disaster can happen. Mt Hood is waiting to level Seattle, rashes of Torandos can hit any number of major cities, Hurricanes can slam every major city on the easter seaboard and the gulf. Columbus itself can be in capcitated and severyly dammaged by a whoile host of things. There's a shit ton of Americans down there who lost their homes. Not their "houses, not comodities, their homes. You fucking help them, of get the fuck out of our country. Now, back on topic. They aren't asking for $250bill to "rebuild" jack shit. They (those in local power) want a new city, and see this and more of an opportunity then a disaster. The people trying to rebuilt shatter existences will see very little of that money. There's already things in motion to turn entire neighborhoods into greenspace, buldozing perfectly salvagable proprties. There's some sad shit happening down there, and the biggest mistake is letting this administration handle the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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