How many zeros in a billion???

[Dugout Dad]

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 billion seconds ago it was 1959.


· A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.


· A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.


· A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.


· A billion dollars is 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 NewOrleans .. 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.




Imagine, now $700 billion bailing out banks in the US.

That's enough to fund complete medical care for every man, woman and child currently alive in the US for 11 years!!



$50 billion to bail out the auto industry???

Washington , D.C. & Ottawa Canada.



HELLO!!!


Are all your calculators broken yet??




Accounts Receivable Tax

Building Permit Tax

CDL License Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporate Income Tax

Dog License Tax

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 Vehicl

e 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 Charge Tax

Utility Tax

Vehicle License Registration Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Watercraft Registration Tax

Well Permit Tax

Workers Compensation Tax

Income Tax

Everything 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.

[as the world turns]

Heck, we are only two weeks in with this fool, can you imagine 4 years?


February 6, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), issued the following statement tonight after the announcement of a compromise on the Senate stimulus bill.
"While I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to bring down the price tag of this bill, the fact is we still face a trillion dollar spending bill. Making it worse, the bill is 93% spending and only 7% stimulation. Over the past few days I have fought to include more in the way of real stimulus through higher percentage of infrastructure and defense spending, while working to cut much of the typical government waste often found in a bill of this size. Yet Democrats have blocked these efforts.

"The good news tonight is that the American people are catching on to the fact that this is the largest spending bill in history and are becoming more and more vocal in their opposition. My offices in Oklahoma and Washington DC have been flooded with emails, phone calls and faxes overwhelmingly opposed to this trillion dollar legislation. They can rest assured that my vote remains an unwavering ‘no.'"

[Stubs]

Well, it's nice to know that there are some politicians in Washington D.C. that are NOT "zeros".