Subject: Billion Dollars
> This is too true to be funny
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> 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.
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> A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
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> B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
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> C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were
> Living in the Stone Age.
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> D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
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> E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and
> 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
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> 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
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> Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress
> for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does
> it mean?
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> A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of
> New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you
> Each get $516,528.
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> B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
> New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
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> C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family
> Gets $2,066,012.
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> Wa****ngton , D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??
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> Accounts Receivable Tax
> Building Permit Tax
> CDL License Tax
> Cigarette Tax
> Cor****ate Income Tax
> Dog License Tax
> Federal Income Tax
> Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
> Fi****ng 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 Fe e Tax,
> Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge 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.
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> 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.
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> What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'
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> And I still have to 'press
> 1' for English.
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> I hope this goes around THE
> USA at least 100 times
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> What the heck happened?????
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under
the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the
socialist program until one day America will be a socialist
nation without ever knowing how it happened." - Norman Thomas,
Socialist Party presidential candidate 1936-68, Cofounder of the
American Civil Liberties Union
Three months before his 1959 visit to the U.S., Khruschev, then
ruthless dictator of International Communism stated:
"We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to
Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them
small doses of Socialism UNTIL they awaken one day to find they HAVE
COMMUNISM."
JC
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