What The Heck Happened!

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

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.

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??

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 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

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.

What the heck happened?????

dylo · Posted: Oct 08, 2008 8:26 am Post subject:

you all got too cocky and now its biting you in the ass
your like the high school jock who now drives taxi's to get his weekly paycheck

you were the most popular kid who had everything, now your some lowlife stuck in debt Smash

haha

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

dylo, if only what you said wasn't true. Damn you for being right, hahaha.

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

dylo, oh yeah, now the jock can't even drive a taxi or dig ditches because it has all been outsourced.

soy escuala · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 2248

theyyyy tooker jaabs

triggamike · Backside 180 Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 1392 City: 225

im moving to mexico

Fryguy · Posted: Oct 08, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

taku · Kickflip Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 2868 City: Central FL

dang

*cry*

Le Jalapeno · Guest

beach, DON'T TAX MY TEA!!!

skateonwater · Backside 180 Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 757

wow. screw politicians
i say chuck norris for president he'll know what to do

DRAGON88 · Dragoon Joined: 01 May 2004 Posts: 1020 City: Portland

I think I lot of that actually is either really outdated or plainly not true.

For one thing 1,000,000,000 seconds is 31.6 or so years. 2008-31= 1977.

1,000,000,000 minutes = 1901 years.

Sensational things are sensational for a reason.

Yes $1,000,000,000 is a lot of money and yes we're becoming desensitized, especially lately, it is quite unfortunate. But this is all sensationalist bulljive.

The number 1,000,000,000 is basically arbitrary without some other kind of qualification.

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

http://www.wakeskating.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23246

feelnjstfine · Backside 180 Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 802 City: Portland

DRAGON88, Good ol' Black Friday, Oct. '87 . What is it with October and the stock market anyways, sure don't like each other. Still remember how that put fear in sooo many people and not just wealthy people. My dad was stressin. Was definately a profound thing for a nine year old kid.

Jesse · Posted: Oct 08, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

Dudes were killing themselves that day.....

ZoSo · Backside 180 Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 900 City: Winnipeg