SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION..THATS>>>

[halfstep]

7 fuckin hundred thousand million..thats what 700 billion is....it takes 10 fuckin years to raise the minimum wage 50 cents and they pass this pile of shit in a week!! WTF is wrong with Americans...how can we let this happen....we should be in the streets with pitchforks!!

[mikelgb]

1. can't afford a pitchfork

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. We'll have to take to the streets with flatware instead.

[Union Thug]

3. Yup - 10 years for the min wage (grossly inadequate). and we can't afford...

national healthcare, and we can't afford universal access to higher education.

But we can bail out million, billion and gazillionaires when they destroy our economy.

[halfstep]

6. its infuriating!!!

i really can not be freinds with republicans anymore...they make my skin crawl...but then again I am a new yorker living in Macon GA...ouch!!!

[BanzaiBonnie]

4. Oh, but then they'll call out the military on us

It's already in the works.

The super rich and even the moderately rich in this country are terrified of what might happen if "the people" should take to the streets in revolt!

[Winterblues]

5. To many potholes in the streets

Must sit at home and watch American Idol...

[immoderate]

7. To paraphrase I forget who...

If you spend a million dollars a year, it will take you seven hundred thousand years to spend this money. :)

--IMM

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Extrapolated from that --

Spending a million dollars a DAY, it would take 1,918 years to spend it all.

Looking backward, it would be a million dollars a day since Nero's time.

[Kutjara]

8. Because the minimum wages takes money out of the richies pockets, while...

...the bailout puts money in. Anything that turns a buck for our corporate overlords is fast-tracked straight onto the statute books, lickety-split. That's something on which both Republican and Democratic congresscritters can agree.

[snooper2]

9. It would take me 7,777,777 years

to make that much money


If they were smart they would just cut a check for $5000 to every taxpaying American

[Disturbed]

11. Why did they arrive at $700 Billion?

Theory: Anything close to $500 Billion would translate into Half $Trillion. Anything close to $800 Billion would be thought of as a $Trillion. So $700 Billion was decided upon as a better marketing ploy. Sort of like the Ads for products as $19.95 instead of $20.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Does Bush look even the least bit contrite about his deregulation policies?

Or regretful about his policies to lower interest rates so he could borrow money to fund his Chimp war? Has he looked the least bit sorry? Has he looked at all apologetic? Has he seemed to have any remorse on his Chimp face for ruining what was once a great country? Do his eyes show even a tiny amount of contrition?

[chill_wind]

13. What it would buy Americans in tradeoffs.

Wish could be sent to every household before Nov 4.

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