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A BILLION - Bernice Moore - 19-11-2011 [TABLE] [TR] [TD] [B]How many zeros in a billion?[/B] [B]This is too true to be funny.[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] 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.[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] 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. [/B][B] [/B][B] A.[/B][B] [/B][B] A billion seconds ago it was 1959. [/B][B] [/B][B] B.[/B][B] [/B][B] A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. [/B][B] [/B][B] C.[/B][B] [/B][B] A billion hours ago our ancestors were[/B][B] [/B][B]living in the Stone Age. [/B][B] [/B][B] D.[/B][B] [/B][B] A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. [/B][B] [/B][B] E. A billion [/B] [B]dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government[/B][B] [/B][B]is spending it. [/B][B] [/B][B] While this thought is still fresh in our brain...[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] let's take a look at New Orleans.[/B][B] [/B][B] It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B]Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking[/B][B] [/B][B]Congress[/B][B] [/B][B]for [/B][B] 250[/B][B] BILLION DOLLARS[/B][B] [/B][B] to rebuild New Orleans. [/B] [B]Interesting number....[/B][B] [/B][B] What does it mean? [/B][B] [/B][B] A.[/B][B] [/B][B] Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child), you each get [/B][B]$516,528.[/B][B] [/B][B] B.[/B][B] [/B][B] Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, your home gets[/B][B] $1,329,787.[/B][B] [/B][B] C.[/B][B] [/B][B] Or... if you are a family of four, your family gets [/B][B]$2,066,012.[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] Washington , D.C.[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B]HELLO![/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] Are all your calculators broken??[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax CDL License Tax Cigarette Tax[/B][B] [/B][B] Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax[/B] [B]Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) [/B] [B]Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges [/B] [B](tax on top of tax) [/B] [B]IRS Penalties [/B] [B](tax on top of tax) [/B] [B]Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax [/B] [B]Sales Taxes Service charge taxes Social Security Tax [/B] [B]Road Usage Tax (Truckers) [/B] [B]Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) [/B] [B]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 Local Tax Telephone Usage Charge[/B] Utility Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax [/B][B] [/B][B] STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago.. and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] We had absolutely no national debt... We had the largest middle class in the world... [/B] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [B] and Mom stayed home to raise the kids[/B][B]. [/B][B] [/B][B] What the HELL happened?[/B][B] [/B][B] Can you spell 'politicians!' [/B][B] And I still have to press "1" for English.[/B][B] [/B][B] [/B][B] I hope this goes around [/B][B]the[/B][B] [/B][B] U[/B][B]S[/B][B]A[/B] [B]at least 100 times[/B] -- |