1 billion dollars

[Mr President]

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

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 License Tax
Federal Income Tax < BR>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 Local 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!' And I still have to

press '1'

for English.
I hope this goes around the

USA

at least 100 times
WTF!!!!!

[pcgluva]

makes u think

[ranger2112]

I am from Louisiana and personally dont give a @#$% what happens to N.O. Tired of working 4 months of the year for free so broke azz bumflicks can sit around. No insurance, no new home. period. Intercourse em if they cant deal with it.

[KLL]

Fun fact 1: In German "Billion" means a trillion in English, so a german billion got 3 more 0s

Fun fact 2: Germany has the worlds most complicated tax law.
It contains 118 laws, 185 forms, 418 exceptions and 96,000 regulations (just one comment to taxation covers 2,671 pages). Germany has nearly 100,000 instructions for the administration only referring to taxation (more than 28,000 pages).
60% percent of the literature on taxation in the world supposedly refers to the German tax system.

[mechdestroyer]

wow, that is just rediculous, ive been looking stuff up on this for months and it still suprises me, and guess what we have coming up on deck, more programs obama, and i will cut nothing, but make more wars mccain, yay!,

i think ill vote constitution party or libertarian or something man, at least they seem to have some common sense there, some but they are still politicians

[mysterydave]

It is interesting about the German billion.

The British definition of a billion used to be a million million ie.
1000000000000
Unfortunately we capitulated and changed it to the American definition, which is a thousand million.
1000000000
I assume that the Germans still use the first one and good on 'em I say. I much prefer it. You call 100000000 a hundred million so why not call 1000000000 a thousand million?