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What's a Billion?

The statistics contained, herein, are not my work. I am told it came from some advertising agency. I want to be sure to give whoever gathered this data gets all the credit for having done so.

Politicians use the word "Billion" as frequently as they say, "I do not recall."

Billions are bandied about with reckless abandon and a frivolity that rivals that of kids in a candy store. I wonder how many Representatives and how many Senators could actually tell you how many zeroes there are in one Billion. Well, I googled it. There are 9 zeroes in one billion. When you look at the number written out it doesn't appear to be that much of anything. It is a big number, for certain, but it does not impress.

However, if you read what this brilliant AD agency did, you realize the enormity of a billion. You suddenly gain perspective. You suddenly realize that we have entrusted some 650 idiots with managing and disbursing many thousands of Billion of dollars, that it took months and months for you and I to earn. I hope that God is not fed up blessing the United States of America. Boy, do we ever need Him now!

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.

A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

YET....YET...A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

And if you want to be a little more annoyed....here is how those 600 odd idiots in Congress and the charmer in the White House are planning to raise all that money.


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


None of these taxes existed 100 years ago.
One Hundred years ago we had absolutely no national debt. We had the largest middle class in the world. Mothers stayed at home to raise the kids. We had far fewer prisons.  And, most of all; the average American knew that while he was endowed with an enormous list of rights, he didn't have a right to health care, or a house, or a car, or a job, or retirement, or unemployment, or welfare.

I wonder what the heck happened.

It occurs to me that 100 years ago everyone in Congress could walk upright. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe not.

If you know the answer...do leave a comment.

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Reognition for the Military

President Obama has had a bad rap where the Armed Forces are concerned. The image projected is one of not caring for our uniformed men and women. He tried hard to change this image today while speaking to marines at Camp Lagoon.

One of the things he said which was unique and greatly appreciated by the marines there was that today in a time when so many institutions have exhibited selfishly bad behavior with no regard for country, the military has done the exact opposite. They have served selflessly and tirelessly for their country. The President said that the military should stand as the model citizen for the rest of us. People we should strive to emulate in daily life. Well spoken. It was also delivered with the usual panache and charisma. Speaking from the Republican side I have to admit that he announced more help and assistance for the armed forces than the last administration ever did. And, I am man enough to admit it. This additional expenditure is one of the few in the huge budget that is meritorious.

The President’s former rival, Senator John McCain, said today that he would support the planned pullout. He said that the plan announced by the President today was far, far different from the campaign plan. He also said that the situation was different in Iraq today. It was clear today that President Obama’s plan is going to be possible to execute because George Bush’s Surge worked. It is also good to know that our troops will stay in Iraq till December 09 when Iraq elects a new Government. The new President has learned quickly that it is easy to promise things on the stump, and another matter after one has taken that unenviable seat behind that massive desk in an elliptical office in the big mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue

Somehow, when that happens, everything changes.

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The Hallelujah Administration and Reality

We are not even three weeks into what I like to call the “Hallelujah Administration”
(remember Hillary saying that the heavens would open up and angels would sing….hence Hallelujah…rather like Camelot was a pseudonym for the Kennedy adminsitration), and things are beginning to fall apart. That is, if you are an Obama-ite. If, every time you see our President, you experience the vapors. If you are not one of these elite, then we are simply experiencing a good strong dose of reality. The reality of unreal campaign promises.

The real change that we were promised, and that we had the audacity to hope for, has given us one cabinet appointment who while he is a genius on monetary and fiscal policy, cannot even handle turbo tax without making big mistakes. Turbo Tax is really idiot proof. I use it; I know! He is going to administer the tax system. Another cabinet appointee, Eric Holder, is a dubious character, at best, someone who has admitted the error of asking for Marc Rich to be pardoned in the final hours of the Clinton Administration. The assistant attorney general , it turns out now, represented the porn industry in court. Wonderful! Nancy Killefer was going to be the federal government's chief performance officer – a position President Obama created – but it turns out she has employed illegal aliens in her home. Darn! Now, Tom Daschle has pulled his hat out of the ring. It’s those pesky taxes again. It appears that what is sauce for the Geithner Goose is not sauce for the Daschle gander. What was an honest mistake for Timmy is a serious embarrassment for Tommy. Even the Messiah has admitted that he screwed up in choosing Daschle, who is an honorable man they say, who just made a mistake…sounds like they’ve come to bury Caesar not to praise him.

Now to make things even worse, there is that salvific stimulus package. Every second that it doesn’t get passed, according to Mamma Pelosi, more poor Am,ericans are getting laid off. Yet, there’s more pork in it than there is in a Honey Baked Ham!
Picture this:
•    Six hundred and fifty million dollars for Digital TV conversion. As though America cannot watch a Brit insult American performers on analog TVs.
•    Seven hundred million dollars to help Americans quit smoking. It’s the liberal “throw money at it and it will go away” attitude to kicking a disgusting habit. What happened to smoking your last one and flushing the butt down the toilet as confirmation of your resolve that it was, indeed, your last one?
•    One hundred thousand dollar for replacement doorbells…who the heck knows where these door bells are going?
•    Six million dollars to convert hybrid cars into pure electric cars.
•    Five hundred thousand dollars to build a dog park in Chula Vista California. I love my dogs. They sleep with me. They sit in my lap while I watch TV. They get every second bite from my dinner plate….but a half a million dollars for a park dedicated to them….I think not!
•    And the straw that will cause fatal lumbar problems for the ship of the desert, forty million dollars to help prostitutes financially. WE WOULD’NT NEED TO HELP THEM FINANCIALLY if we just left them alone and allowed them to turn tricks every night.


What we have seen in a mere fifteen days is the evidence of the complete lack of experience in leadership. Poor choices made by our president…just as he chose the wrong pastor and the wrong political promoters and the wrong real estate broker. Without a decent idea in his head he left it to Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts in the House to create a stimulus package in 14 days. Even he realizes that what they came up with, stinks. Now the American people, much to their disillusionment, are starting to hold their noses. Hang on people…..we have three years and eleven and a half months to go….. SO HELP US GOD!

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