Why $700B

[pokerfan]

and not $686B or $713B?

We're rounding by hundreds of billions now?

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. It's actully $1 trillion, with a 30% off instant rebate.

Everyone likes to think they're getting a bargain.

[pokerfan]

2. So you're telling me

that we just made $300B? Sweet! That's like $1000 for every citizen, children included. We should have given them $1400B. Then I could buy that big screen I've had my eye on.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Now you're catching on to how this works...........

Very good!

[CJCRANE]

3. Maybe $699.99B would have been an easier sell nt

[pokerfan]

4. $699,999,999,999.98?

That looks even scarier.

[RoccoR5955]

5. The people at the Treasury Dept. said that they wanted it to be...

..."A really big number." In English, they pulled it out of their keister!

[pokerfan]

8. Maybe seven is a psychologically satisfying number on some level

It's a prime. Seven colors of the rainbow, seven days of the week, the seven wonders of the ancient world, the seventh day of creation...

The atomic number of Nitrogen, a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas. That makes for a nice metaphor. Carbon would have been a hard sell what with greenhouse warming and stuff.

The number of the next OS from Microsoft...

:shrug:

[RoccoR5955]

9. But the name for Micro$oft's next operating system will be..

...Windows Hasta La Vista!

[InkAddict]

7. That's a really good question and I noticed

that was the exact amount that Boone's pickensplan (commercial during debate timeslot) mentioned was needed to grow his giant windmill farms and replace the use of gasoline w/CNG...I'm content to think this is coincidental; but it's still tinfoil interesting.