dave123williams
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Sun Mar-16-08 05:04 AM
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If one dollar was one second: |
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Edited on Sun Mar-16-08 05:09 AM by dave123williams
If dollars were seconds, it would take 12 days to reach a million dollars.
A billion seconds would take 32 years.
A trillion seconds would take 32,000 years.
In Iraq, it's estimated that this nation will have squandered more than 3 trillion.
That's if we get out next year.
If dollars were seconds, and we paid a dollar a second for this war, it would take nearly a hundred thousand years to pay off.
That's not counting the interest, because we're borrowing the money to pay for this idiotic folly.
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Sun Mar-16-08 05:32 AM
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stellanoir
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Sun Mar-16-08 06:19 AM
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2. Oh just because each and every one of us owes 20 grand for this |
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colossally illegal folly doesn't mean we all shouldn't just be pleased as punch over our 600 dollar bribe this summer.
Right. . .?
/sarcasm
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Mendocino
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Sun Mar-16-08 06:35 AM
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3. The bribe for the most part |
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will just end up as more profit for big oil.
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Sun Mar-16-08 06:40 AM
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4. And that is SUCH a worthy cause |
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with their record profit, tax breaks, deregulation, and total lack of culpability for the Exxon Valdez spill, they're hurting for certain.
Yikes
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Sun Mar-16-08 06:51 AM
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5. fuck money. it's the cost in lives that outrages me. |
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Sun Mar-16-08 10:06 AM
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6. And placed end to end . . . |
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. . . the dollar bills would reach to the sun and several million miles past it. About 8 light-seconds worth of distance.
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