As you read this data on how much a billion is, think of what Congress is talking about these days as they approve trillions.
This has been around before, a few years ago. I thought it would be useful see how big ONE BILLION is.
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 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) was 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??
Building Permit Tax CDL License Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax (Fed) Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA) 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 (And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes)
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 hell has happened to our country?????
“By the way, it takes 1,000 of these Billions that you just read about…to equal ONE TRILLION that congress pisses away like last nights’ beer!”
All golfers should live so long as to become this kind, old man !
Toward the end of the Sunday service, the Minister asked,
“How many of you have forgiven your enemies?”
80% held up their hands. The Minister then repeated his question.
All responded this time, except one man, Walter Barnes.
“Mr. Barnes, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?” “I don’t have any,” he replied gruffly. “Mr. Barnes, that is very unusual. How old are you?” “Ninety-eight,” he replied.
The congregation stood up and clapped their hands.
“Oh, Mr. Barnes, would you please come down in front and tell us all how a person can live ninety-eight years and not have an enemy in the world?”
The old golfer tottered down the aisle, stopped in front of the pulpit, turned around, faced the congregation, and said simply,
The World Editor: How did Tolley’s Topics-The Sphinx do in 2020, LL ?
Everywhere Cat: We were viewed in every country in the world ( 195 ), including several Principalities like Monaco and The Isle of Man. Even Georgia, the country, was represented.
I have worked many jobs in my life which meant a lot of overtime hours in some cases. They were pretty straight-forward, easily solved little crises. The company gets a larger than usual order, so they would go on overtime for a couple weeks. Problem solved.
BUT….Mercy me, & Katy Bar The Door! I simply cannot stay up with the demand on my Nancy Pelosi Voodoo dolls. I have completely exhausted the supply of Kente cloth from Ghana for the scarves. I have purchased all the little high heels that were reserved for Barbie from Mattel. Amazon’s supply of little BLM face masks is already in back-order status.
My apologies to my many customers, but I simply must place Old Nancy on the back-burner until my supplies are more accessible.
I do have some good news! The demand for my VOO-obama-Doo Doll has sky-rocketed. The Pre-production samples are looking “just as the customers have requested.”
Yes, he will be delivered with the authentic tag reading “I WAS MADE IN KENYA.” Parker Brothers has agreed to stack millions of Monopoly dollars on little pallets for me. So, when you open your VOO-obama-DOO Doll, he will be reclining on his pallets of money, with the shipping label which reads: “Destination: Iran…in the middle of the night…in unmarked planes.”
If you order in the next 30 minutes, you will receive an advance notice of the availability of the Phase ll Voo-obama-doo doll. He will be sporting a little T-shirt that reads “George Soros is my Hero.” For an additional shipping and handling charge, you will receive real miniature replicas of the Fast & Furious guns that Harry Reid and obama gave to the Mexican cartel.
But hold on…the best is yet to come…. he will have a little Joe Biden Dummy Puppet on his lap. Can you believe what I went through to make this happen? All the little Dummy says when you pull the string is…”C’mon Man”… but, I have to start somewhere.
China was VERY adamant that they would not release their “Joe Biden Puppet Rights” to anyone in America until they see just how much faith they can safely put in their Business Associate, Hunter Biden.
Meanwhile…get your mind off politics and worry about something important like:
Poor Barbie is forced to wear mismatched flip flops with her mini skirts and formal gowns because I have bought all the little high heels for my Old Nancy Voodoo dolls.
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