Well, last night the O-man told us all once again how he is just fixin' to fix all our problems.
You know, the ones he inherited... the ones he had nothing to do with creating.
His solutions are largely government centered.
Because, you see, he believes we're all incapable of doing anything for ourselves.
So, he's tossing miliions or billions or trillions around like they're quarters, and digging our debt hole deeper with every word.
While it's obvious that he has no idea how much any of these numbers really are, many of us do.
You see, we've run businesses and had jobs that depend on profitability.
You know, ones that aren't fireproof because of tenure, or that aren't funded by that never empty pool of tax revenues.
So just for education's sake, let's take a minute and look at just what a billion is.
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 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 dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending.
Now, as a more contemporary example of this fiduciary foolishness, let's take a look at Louisiana....
because it's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) got bought off for her healthctre vote in Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS, to be used to help rebuild New Orleans .
Interesting number... a quarter of a trillion dollars.
What does it mean?
Well... if you are one of the 484,674 remaining residents of New Orleans, (every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.
Or... If you have one of the 188,251 homes ever built in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
Or... If you are a family of four... your family gets $2,066,012.
As another example, let's look at U.S. aid to Haiti BEFORE the earthquake.
Haiti is a small half-island in the Caribbean.
It has just under 9 million residents counting men, women, and children, or at least it did before the earthquake.
Now, the earthquake was a terrible and tragic event.
But here's what's more tragic:.
Over the last eight years before the earthquake, the U.S. sent $300 billion in aid there.
In 2008 alone we sent $300 million.
To a country of 9 million people.
That's right, we sent $33,000+ for every man, women, and child --- $132,000+ for every family of four --- and the people were still living in shacks.
Habitat for Humanity says they can build new, safe, core housing units for Haitians for a total cost of about $4,000 each, and it appears they have some of the houses built to prove it.
Hello O-man: Do you think we could have sent each haitian $20,000 cash so they could have a good house, and saved ourselves a hundred and seventeen billion dollars???
It's amazing how much more frugally things can be done when you get the government out of the way.
It's amazing how much more frugally things can be done when you get the government out of the way.
Just a thought.
“Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality” ---- John Tyler
“Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.” ---- Samuel Johnson
