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Posted on 03/06/2009 10:41:54 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
03/06/2009 11:30:52 AM PST
by
bonnieblue4me
(You can put lipstick on a donkey (or a dimrat), but it is still an ass!)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
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posted on
03/06/2009 11:32:17 AM PST
by
Lucky9teen
(What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. And SOON!!!)
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
03/06/2009 11:33:33 AM PST
by
Lucky9teen
(What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. And SOON!!!)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Ask Robert Mugabe. Who could probably get a job with Il Douche’s administration.
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posted on
03/06/2009 11:45:06 AM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: Blood of Tyrants
One Thousand Billion. I remember thinking about large numbers as a kid, and I asked what comes after a Billion. Well, they told me a Thousand Billion makes One Trillion.
It was as incomprehensible back then, as it is now in my ‘40’s. I’d suggest no one can truly fathom what a Trillion Dollars is, but your example is an “absolutely perfect” way for me to explain it to my daughter this evening, and I thank you.
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posted on
03/06/2009 11:45:31 AM PST
by
Pagey
(B. Hussein Obama has no experience running anything, except his pedestrian mouth.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Here is the way I always look at it. If I had, tax free, one billion dollars, I could spend one million dollars a year(assuming I earned no interest on the billion)for 1000 years before I went broke. Of course I would be dead before then:).
If I had a Trillion dollars, tax free(remember that is a 1000 billions),I could spend a billion dollars a year for a thousand years before I went broke, again assuming no interest was earned by the trillion.
To further drive it home, I could spend a 1000 millions per year(that's a billion), for 1000 years before going through a trillion bucks.
When ever I hear the a**hats in DC throwing around sums like that I always picture myself trying to spend this huge amount of money, it brings home the sheer amount of wealth our government blows through every year, with very little return on the investment I might add.
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posted on
03/06/2009 11:50:05 AM PST
by
calex59
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:01:37 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
A trillion dollars in one dollar bills would weigh about 1.1 million tons, or 22 billion pounds. If you were using 100 dollar bills it would way about 11 thousands tons.
To: calex59
Assume you had $1 trillion. And assume you have 40 years of life left. Assume you are awake for 16 hours each day of those 40 years.
You’d have to spend over $70,000 dollars EVERY MINUTE for the rest of your waking life to burn through that cash.
A new house every 3 minutes. A brand new Cadillac Escalade every minute. A new Gulfstream 550 every 8 hours.
Yes, that’s the spending you’d have to do...
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:10:12 PM PST
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:10:36 PM PST
by
Unlikely Hero
("Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." --Berlioz)
To: txnativegop
Spending 1,000,000 a day you would have needed to start about 2600 years ago 600 BC, the beginning of the Roman Republic, to reach one trillion in spending.......
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:11:25 PM PST
by
Kozak
(USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
To: ari-freedom
Piker....
Also note it took only 5 MONTHS to go from one to the other...
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:14:54 PM PST
by
Kozak
(USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
To: Kozak
A Lot of money isn’t! The amount of money being spent is obscene.
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:15:43 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
To: calex59
with very little return on the investment I might add. Like Mark Twain once said, "Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for."
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:19:13 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
To: Unlikely Hero
Graham’s number? Can we not just call it infinity?
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:21:28 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:43:11 PM PST
by
razbinn
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and to the republic for which it ...)
To: Blood of Tyrants
I don’t pretend to understand it, although I think Large Number theory is cool. I was reading up on it a little more after posting this and I think I sprained my brain.
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:52:25 PM PST
by
Unlikely Hero
("Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." --Berlioz)
To: Unlikely Hero
If it has more zero’s than you can count or even imagine, it IS infinity, no matter what all the fancy math says.
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posted on
03/06/2009 12:57:42 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Socialism is the belief that most people are better off if everyone was equally poor and miserable.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
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posted on
03/06/2009 5:10:39 PM PST
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: calex59
I could spend one million dollars a year(assuming I earned no interest on the billion)for 1000 years before I went broke. Of course I would be dead before then:). Ahem:
Why not say screw it and go ahead and spend 20 million a year for fifty years.
It would be fun!
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posted on
03/06/2009 5:18:40 PM PST
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
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