Comments on: How Much Is A Billion?

By: Label addict!!~

Label addict!!~ — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:57:26 +0000

ENOUGH

By: Repub to the end.

Repub to the end. — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:47:19 +0000

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

By: Aegis of Freedom

Aegis of Freedom — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:25:33 +0000

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.

By: Englanda

Englanda — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:35:41 +0000

Can you repeat that, please?

By: ♥Rosie45

♥Rosie45 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:52:37 +0000

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!

By: veronica

veronica — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:58:39 +0000

Now this is coOl
thanx for the info

By: PATRICIA MS

PATRICIA MS — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:29:37 +0000

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

By: -RKO-

-RKO- — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:07:06 +0000

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

By: ?

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:23:06 +0000

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

By: ed

ed — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:59:09 +0000

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 <>http://tinyurl.com/zob77%20>
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/fiscale…
<>http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscale…
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscale…
<>http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscale…
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/0…
<>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
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/0…
<>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
<>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
<>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/2…
<>http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/2…
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
<>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
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 UShttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
<>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0…
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
<>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/p…
<>http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/p…
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
<>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 <>http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml>
The total cost is a whopping . $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR
Are we THAT stupid???