How much is a BILLION?

Question

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), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, 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??

Tax his land,
Tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirts,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.

Tax his booze,
Tax his beers,
If he cries,
Tax his tears.

Tax his bills,
Tax his gas,
Tax his notes,
Tax his cash.

Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.

If he hollers,
Tax him more,
Tax hi m until he's good and sore.

Tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me to my doom!'

And when he's gone,
We won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance TAX!!
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 Perm it 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 Fe e Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Su rcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Su rcharge 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, 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.

What the heck happened?????

Answer 1

You could have said all of that in one word: Reaganomics!

Answer 2

I noticed that you missed the Excise Tax in your list. It was supposed to be a "temporary tax" added to our phone bills for 1 year to pay for parks and recreation area clean up. That was in the 70s. Look at your phone bill, it's still there.

Income tax was 1% and only affected 1% of the population when it was introduced. Now it is around 20% on 100% of the population.

When Social Security was introduced it paid "retirees" at age 65 and the average life span was 62. We still get it at 65, but the average life span is now 78.

Every "limited" social program (social security, medicare, medicaid, etc.) currently costs 10x - 50x more than it was proposed to cost before it was implemented. The prescription drug benefit that was passed by Bush is already costing 4x what was predicted, and it has only been around for a couple of years.

Never, ever give the government more power. It is 100% garunteed that it will be abused. That was the whole point of the Constitution. It limited the government and only gave it the powers that were explicitly stated in the Constitution.

Answer 3

As one well-known member of Congress once said, "A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it starts adding up to REAL money!"

Apparently edward I has a hard on for illegal aliens, yet he fails to recognize that almost all of us are descendants of America's first illegal aliens who came over on boats from Europe; squeezed native American Indians on to reservations; stole from them; cheated them; slaughtered them and squandered their land. As these "illegals" moved westward, they killed the great American buffalo just for the sport of it [while native American Indians regarded the buffalo - and the great plains - as sacred entities to be shared by everyone]. Then these "illegals" imported black slaves from Africa, treating them as personal property other than God's human beings. Then our "industrial revolution" polluted our air, poisoned our waters, filled our land with garbage, and made sheer squalor out of what once was a beautiful, spacious, pristine country.

And today we spend TRILLIONS (not mere billions) on unconstitutional, illegal, unjustifiable, immoral 'wars' against other sovereign nations that in no way threatened, provoked or attacked the United States of America. In fact, as of August, 2006, "American Prospect" magazine calculated we'd spent $1.27 TRILLION on the Iraq 'war', or ONE MILLION DOLLARS A DAY for 3,487 years!

That adds up to REAL money! And, real debt that our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will still be paying off!

So what the heck's a few hundred billion here and there?
American taxpayers can afford it (even if they don't even know it!). After all, it's not OUR money - it's money that belongs to the United States Treasury, right? -RKO- 12/19/07

Answer 4

And if I had a billion $ I could feed every person in the shelters.

Answer 5

I've heard this before--nice cut and paste job.
Thank you, this is great food for thought. Now I'm pissed at the gub'mint all over again!

Answer 6

Now this is coOl
thanx for the info

Answer 7

Very good! One point however, Jesus is alive & well .

Answer 8

a little less then george bush has cashed in on dead American soldiers

Answer 9

I love you.

Answer 10

This is part of what's happening.
40 % of us are dependent on the handouts from the government.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77



2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html




3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html




4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html




5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html




6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html




7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html




8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html




9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html




10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in
the US

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html




11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht




12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf




13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm




14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml



The total cost is a whopping . $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR

Are we THAT stupid???