what is a billion

[Bigdaddy]

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 it's 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)
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??

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 T ax
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 happened??

[homewrecker john]

i would take 1% of a billion...and pay some bills or make one hell of a bogger lol!

[RIP_K52007]

lol email looks familiar...

x 1,000,000,000

[BIG DOG]

YOU FORGOT AIR TAX            WERE GONNA HAVE TO WEAR A VEST  TO SEE HOW MUCH AIR WE USE BEFORE LONG

[slymer]

what is Mary Landrieu   

[TOMAC]

i would take 1% of a billion...and pay some bills or make one hell of a bogger lol!

hell yeah!!!

[zahnsracing]

I dont feel so well anymore.


I think the politicians should cut their wage in HALF.


how about cutting some jobs on capital hill,and see what happens when they DONT HAVE A JOB!!!!!!!!

[Str8pipedodge]

Hell i could live quite nicely off of .5% of a billion

[HeatherLuvsMud]

  These truths are so pathetic.

[mikeH]

the more and more i read about how corrupt or country really is the more i want to see some type of government take down i think it would be SWEET!

[TAM123]

My patriotic blood is boilin!

[TBigLug]

So sad, but so so true. Never before have we voted such a radicaly liberal government in. Tax and spend has always been the Democrat's credo. This is just the beginning.

[TBigLug]

Reminds me of something my father told me once. "Want to fix Social Security? Take away the politicians bloated retirement package and put them on SS!"

[catfish]

we vote these people in ant got no one to blame but are selfs and tbiglug is riht it will probly git a lot worse real quick

[THAT MUDFIT GUY]

technically we dont vote these ppl in  our votes are just recomendations to the electoral college of who we think should be elected another corrupt political machine