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Subject: Fw: How many zeros in a billion?

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 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.

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 Congress for 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 LicenseTax

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)

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 Unemploy ment Tax (SUTA)

Telephone Federal Excise Tax

Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax

0ATelephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax

Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax

Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax

Telephone State and Local Tax

Telephone Usage Charge Tax

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 !' And I still have to press '1' for English. I hope this goes around the USA at least 100 times What the heck happened? ????

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greed, corruption, and plain simple ignorance on the part of the people.... it's gonna be damned hard to reverse the last 80 or so years of bullshit that our government has put into place....BUT it can happen... if we make it happen...

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greed, corruption, and plain simple ignorance on the part of the people.... it's gonna be damned hard to reverse the last 80 or so years of bullshit that our government has put into place....BUT it can happen... if we make it happen...

ummm, actually, the longer it takes for a correction, the more likely it will happen in a single day, week or month.... I hate to say that, but that's how it works...

apathy/greed/corruption/ignorance--> chaos--> anarchy

Wait till the supply vs demand of gasoline or food or water rolls over, that's the start of chaos... Best guess is 2010 to 2020...

Banks are in chaos now, if they refuse to give money back that would be anarchy. It's happened before.

Anybody got a nice unpopulated island with a nice paved road on it? (And some gasoline)

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Anybody got a nice unpopulated island with a nice paved road on it? (And some gasoline)

I have a nice island in the middle of the ocean named Jarvis Island that's unpopulated, but there's no roads and it's made completely of bird shit.

Sorry, it's the best I could no with such little notice.

(but seriously, it's there, look it up)

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