Posted on 01/20/2023 5:15:35 AM PST by sodpoodle
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 Charge Tax 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 U S A At least 100 times What the heck has happened to our Country?
God bless
I don’t think all the math is right here. A billion seconds is like 31 years, not 64.
I don’t write them, I just plagiarize.
You are right.
This site makes a conversion easy:
https://converths.com/how-many-years-is-a-billion-seconds-billion-sec-to-years/
1000000000 minutes = 1901.29 years so 121 AD almost 122AD
Pocket change to those who have an endless supply.
Good post, thanks,
A way of looking at the US national debt is this: At 0.0042” per dollar bill (I put a micrometer on a dollar bill.), the $31.38T debt is equivalent to a stack of dollar bills that is 2,080,113 miles high or a bit over eight times the distance between the earth and the moon.
No problems. It just seemed funny to me that a post that has the phrase “Are all your calculators broken??” should have a math error.
Jesus is still alive.
Good post. I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said something like this: When the people start voting themselves money, that’s the end of the republic.
It is true that there are always relatively poor people but the kind and beneficiant impulse to help them has been hijacked by strident demands for money by so-called activists and grifting politicians portraying themselves as agents of the beneficial impulse. All the while, making a lot of money for themselves. Dishonest and disgusting.
Actually, I think it was Benjamin Franklin.
Our government is very much like an imaginary game of Monopoly, only when a player passes Go he/she/they gets to enact any new rule desired. Pretty soon the game becomes unplayable.
Though our legislative practices are a bit slower, the outcome is similar - Congress passes law after law with little regard as to consequences or cost. In the haste to look like they are doing something & to convince voters that theirs is the party to back, Congress & the President rarely reject any opportunity to spend money we don’t have.
If we ever want again a government “of the people, by the people, & for the people”, I fear it will require another bloody revolution.
Using 365.2425 days/year to normalize leap years, our Lab calculates:
10^9 seconds [= 31.69 years] ago it was 1991 [Q2].
10^9 minutes [= 1,901.32 years] ago it was calendar 121 A.D. [Q3], so Jesus had [briefly] died 88 years earlier (in 33 A.D. [Q2] ).
10^9 hours [= 114,079.46 years] ago "our ancestors were living in the Stone Age."
Stone Age started ~ 2.6*10^6 years ago, so Yes, late Stone Age.
10^9 days [= 2,737,907 years] ago "no one walked on the earth on two feet."
That was ~ 138,000 years prior to the Stone Age, so OK.
10^9 years ~= 1/13.5 = 7.41% of our observable universe's estimated age.
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