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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 28, 2008 23:22:22 GMT -5
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&nb sp; 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.
< /B>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 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 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 V ehicle Tax School Tax State Income Ta x 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
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.
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Oct 29, 2008 8:12:06 GMT -5
A Billion here and a Billion there, When I was a kid I never even heard the word.
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SirRoxalot
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Post by SirRoxalot on Oct 29, 2008 13:28:25 GMT -5
Why are you yanks always whining about taxes? Don't you travel abroad? Don't you know that most civilized people pay a lot more in taxes than you do? Where do you think your roads and schools come from... the tooth fairy? You love bombing other countries - where does the money for the military come from? FFS you need to grow up.
SirRoxalot
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 29, 2008 16:48:36 GMT -5
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.
get the idea we don't wanna end up like most other country's that tell there citizens what and where they can go and do things, and how much of the money they make they are aloud to keep , we are still fighting for our freedom we haven't givin up like most of you --- god bless America
if you call being led around like sheep and fleeced every payday of your life civilized then I'm very uncivilized to the bone -- i don't know where your from but we here in the U.S.A are gettin tired of paying for two or three family's to sit on the couch and collect checks every month for doin nothing that are perfectly able to get a job and make there own way -- thats why half the money i made in my life was off the books -- I'm not a dumb ass i watched the blacks and everyone else pull up to the welfare office to get there checks in nice cars and cloths when i had my first job the welfare exchange was right next door i could see right then there was a race of people living here that wanted everyone else to support it -- they got half my tax's and I'm sorry i couldn't fig a way to hide the rest -- I'm sick of moochers .
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Post by Simon on Oct 29, 2008 17:49:35 GMT -5
There are only two certainties in life, death and taxes. I gave up worrying about what politicians do years ago. One lot is as bad as the next, all they're after is to line their pockets with public money. Our current glorious leader said ten years ago, 'No return to 'boom and bust' in fact he's said it no less than seven times in the last ten years. Look what's happening now, when is he going to file the UK for bankruptcy. Someone's yanked the chain and we're all going down the pan. Now he's saying that he's going to borrow and increase spending to kick start the economy, launch the lifeboats cos this suckers going down. All of this financial mess started longer ago than that, when you have a market that has no new money coming into, it as in the UK's property market where to get on the bottom rung of the housing ladder you need to be earning minimum £26k a year, then something has to give, I was offered a mortgage 5 times my annual income if I'd taken that I would really be in the toilet now. There are plenty of people that did. Repossessions are up 70% on the same period last year, now if you have the cash in the bank you can buy a house at a vastly reduced price, because stupidly when a bank repossesses they then sell at a fraction of the market value! They're supposed to be the economists, so how is it they can't see how dumb that is. And taxes I figure that they take all told say 70% of my wages in one tax or another, anything I save gets taxed, and my pension fund gets taxed bearing in mind that the last two I've already paid tax on, won't be long before they tax the air we breath. The reason for all these taxes is 1) To support the countries infrastructure, and 2) To pay the wages of all the civil servants it takes to run the country, it is amazing how many people work for the government. Oh and the other good one is the politicians vote for their own wage increases last one was 10% they did start off wanting 40%. They all say we'll cut taxes, they do cut them by a penny, then they put it on something else, petrol goes up 2p a litre, or 10p on cigarettes, price of a pint goes up. 70% of the current price of a litre of petrol is tax. In the long run it really doesn't make a lot of difference who you vote for, one lot will start a war to take peoples eyes off problems at home, the other lot will turn the country over to bleeding hearts and liberals, tinyurl.com/6b5lzg as an example. And the rest of them are just a waste of space. I'm off me soap box. Simon
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 29, 2008 18:04:56 GMT -5
they are doing the same thing over here Simon they have been smackin the hands of criminals for many years and they just go out and do it again -- look we have millions of illegal aliens roaming our streets and they do nothing -- its gonna turn into protect your own cause the police or the gov wont do it -- I'm in the right place new Mexico you can carry as long as its not hidden -- i can see the USA going back to the wild wild west days at leasts you had a chance back then you where armed
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MidNight~Rocksi3
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Post by MidNight~Rocksi3 on Oct 29, 2008 18:33:43 GMT -5
Uh Sands I think you're being misinformed about welfare... I just read a thing on it where it said it's been down from 71 percent to 43 percent.. as a national average..and they aren't allowed to just sit around and collect as you may think.. Tanif.. as what it's called now not only makes them work for their income but the cash assistance they recieve isn't all in cash.. it goes to child care and education from what I gather..
But that's not what I wanted to mention.. Our country isn't blowing money out out ass over a bunch of charity cases. the REAL money being spent like it's christmas is in WAR... But then again maybe it's going to all them damn spiders everyone is so worried about.. LOL..
*smiles*
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Simon
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Post by Simon on Oct 29, 2008 18:43:11 GMT -5
Already happening here, gangs of kids roaming the streets, carrying knives and guns, used to be that a policeman could clip em round the ear and send them home, now no chance they'd get done for assault. People getting beaten to death for daring to intervene.
All because the ex prime ministers mrs, pushed through a human rights bill, European law good for her wallet she's a barrister.
Bad for us cos the crims get a slap on the wrists or nothing at all. Soon as I can I'm out of this hole.
Simon
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 29, 2008 18:48:47 GMT -5
hey if I'm wrong thanks for bringing me up to speed Roxy but i grew up watchin tons of people sit on the couch and make a living with free housing and baby food and checks for each kid they kept having -- so what your saying is we only support 40 % of them now haha---well its gettin better and I'm glad somebody finally had the guts to say enough is enough go get a friggin job -- ill stop complaining about it when you tell me we have finally found a job for the last person sucking welfare of any name --- then ill shut up and die with a smile hahaha
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Post by MidNight~Rocksi3 on Oct 29, 2008 20:28:13 GMT -5
LOL... sands... well now that you got that kink out.. maybe you should still be nice to us spiders.. after all. we are gonna take over one day.. LOL
*smiles*
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 29, 2008 21:06:28 GMT -5
Roxy if your people took over the USA we would be better for it the American Indian had more sense then mosta the worlds people -- they used only what they needed they never tried to own the land and for the most part where peaceful people till provoked---- just keep the peace pipe warm for me ill fill it when i get there hahaha
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Post by MidNight~Rocksi3 on Oct 29, 2008 22:40:59 GMT -5
LOL sands.. well to be honest we ain't nothing but scattered history ... and consider yourself totally invited if time allows.. but as I see it.. there is no chance for the natives even coming close to taking over.. little lone keeping our own blood lines going..
my grandchildren will be the last of my line.. their kids will not be allowed to enroll in any tribe.. and the sad part is.. It's not by fault..It's ANOTHER forced plan the Govt. has in store for us and we have no say so about simply because there isn't enough Native American Indians left to change it... so that's how the govt plans on finally riding the land of the savages.. lol ..Pretty darn sneaky if you ask me.. but not gonna complain... people only get mad if you complain..
.. so what I am hoping for is that by the time I'm like in my next prime... I'll be like a collectors item and try and sell myself off on ebay.! LOL... and die a rich indian..
*smiles*
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 29, 2008 23:00:38 GMT -5
yea i hear ya and your right they are sneaky, when i see government the word printed I'm startin to see (higher level of crooks) -- written out hahaha --- if we had an honest gov we would not be having any of the prob. we have right now -- but i don't think there is such a thing as honest gov -- to much power corrupts
ps -- i just hit the peace pipe and man im feelin peacefull hahaha
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Post by parfive on Oct 30, 2008 0:04:55 GMT -5
SirRoxalot: “Where do you think your roads and schools come from... the tooth fairy? You love bombing other countries - where does the money for the military come from?”
China, Saudi Arabia, etc. The national debt is spread out real nice all over the planet . . . along with the rest of our garbage/carbon/nation building/hypocrisy. Imagine the uproar if we actually had to pay full freight around here.
Sands: “ . . . a race of people living here that wanted everyone else to support it”
That’s what happens when you spoil the slaves. They didn’t hafta pay for all that chit back then. And then somebody forgot the career counseling earmark on the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 30, 2008 0:47:14 GMT -5
iv never seen a slave and never owned one so i don't feel i hafta pay them back for a dam thing if they don't like it here the borders are wide open they can go back to there own country, but i don't feel a bit sorry for them if they cant get on there own two feet -- if millions of illegals can come here and find work so can they and anybody else thats here -- i don't get it i was raised with get a job and pay your bills -- don't look for the hand out cause theres no such thing as a free lunch sooner or later everybody pays -- except the chosen few
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Post by MidNight~Rocksi3 on Oct 30, 2008 11:47:27 GMT -5
slaves? were spoiled? ? as far as I know... the blacks were slaves... the Natives were Prisoners of War... but don't worry about the Natives.. last night as I thought about it and redid the math... My Grandchildren Will NOT be allowed to be enrolled into any tribe as well...NiCe and why is that? because we ran around with a bow and arrow and trusted the wrong people... guess I just now realized why so many are voting for obama now.. LOL *smiles* oh well.... there's always the spiders....... lol
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Post by parfive on Oct 30, 2008 12:53:39 GMT -5
Lotta people are scared of spiders, Rox.
Baracknophobia n. inordinate fear of a "Muslim terrorist" in the oval office.
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