Just a billion !

[727Sky]

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 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)
Was 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 Tax
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'! 
   
JO
 
And I still have to 
[b]Press '1'
For English.[/b]

 
I hope this goes around the  
[b]U[/b]   S   A  
At      least 100 times

 
What the hell has happened to our country?????

[BIAD]

The US -like many other first-world countries, was 'sold' to other parties on Earth who wished to be in on the bountiful
riches. It's the actual worth of these numbers that has really really dwindled that concerns me.

(UK) Behind each sterling note is a promise... a promise that the note is worth something.
We usually equate that 'something' as gold, but as this 2016 information from the Bank Of England indicates, the worth
has morphed from an actual object of desire to the labour put in to create the availability of that object.

Subject/Request details: What is the value of the sterling currency? Bank of England banknotes say promise to pay the bearer
on demand, what is it that you would pay upon receipt of one of your banknotes?
What gives sterling its value, using the labour theory of value?

Date released:  25 February 2016

Disclosure: 

Since the Bank of England’s (the ‘Bank’) foundation in 1694 the Bank has issued notes promising to pay the bearer a sum of money.
For much of its history the promise could be made good by the Bank paying out gold in exchange for its notes.
The link with gold helped to maintain the value of the notes, although the link was sometimes suspended, for example in wartime.

The link with gold was finally broken in 1931 and since that time there has been no other asset into which holders have the right to
convert Bank of England notes. They can only be exchanged for other Bank of England notes.

Nowadays public faith in the pound is maintained in a different way - through the Bank's operation of monetary policy, the object of
which, by statute, is price stability.

The promise to pay does not have the same meaning as it did three hundred years ago.
Nowadays, the ‘promise to pay’ holds good in perpetuity for the exchange of old series Bank of England notes which have been
withdrawn from circulation, as well as mutilated Bank of England notes, provided that certain criteria are met.

Finally, in terms of the labour theory of value, the cost to produce a banknote is minimal, however, its real value lies in the value of
the goods and services you can exchange it for...'

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In 1978, a friend of mine quipped that he had a plan to make-up (create) company/business-named websites in order
to sell them to businesses who later would wish to own the titles. 1978... the first email in the UK was sent to the Queen
in 1976, this shows you how far ahead in the game this guy was.

The scheme was born out the idea that if he could make £1,000,000, he could live off the interest for the rest of his life.
At that time, the interest would've been £2,000-per-week ($2704 today).

A million pounds... who could imagine that amount? I was eighteen years of age then and now at sixty-one, we throw
around the words 'billion' and 'trillion' like they're regular sums of money.

We have food-banks in the UK, we have daily killings and we have a system where nobody has to die on the street via
starvation. We are rich in as much, a small island can be classified as an important country on the world stage.

The amounts of money have always been with us, it's just now easier to talk about them and what has really happened is
these amounts have just congregated into a few instead of the many.
INMHO.