(OT) Re: Obama on science yesterday...

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more OT do you know what a " trillion " dollars is - this will help those of you

who are challenged, like me, to contemplate such a huge number, know more and

also know that there aint gonna be no " science " if this " stimulus " " bailout "

b.s. continues. Whats it got to do with us? We are the only nation to be in a

full scale depression in Europe - if you are not worrying now, you should be -

Grasping A Trillion Dollars

By Debbie , www.TakeBackWashington.com

With the $700 Billion Bush Bailout plan, the $787 Billion Obama Stimulus plan

and the new possibly $1 trillion Obama bailout, it is high time people

understand just what " a trillion " is. If they truly understood this, I think

they would all be as livid as I! (Bear with me, because this does not make for

great reading…but it is extremely enlightening!).

We can all agree that we would be sitting really pretty if we had a six-figure

income, right? Let's say we made a consistent $150,000 a year, starting at age

18 until we retired at age 75. I'll do the math…We would have made $8,550,000

in our life. That is not bad, but lets say we stumbled upon something really

crazy and made a consistent $250,000 per year for the same period. We would

have made $14,250,000 for our life's work. Now, keep in mind, that is with

absolutely NO raise for the 57 years of work…Now, lets think about this, 100,000

people can work for $150,000, or 70,000 people for $250,000, for the 57 years

and that would STILL not be $1 trillion.

The population of the United States is estimates at 305,982,756 at the time of

this writing. The population of the world, at the same time, is 6,765,807,365.

It would take more than 3,251 US populations, or 147 world populations, to get

even close to 1 trillion people. Have you grasped what a trillion is yet?

Ok, lets look at something else. If we divided $1 trillion by the population of

the United States, EACH person, that is each man, woman, and child, would

receive $3,251. Now, THAT would stimulate the economy! Now let's averaged by

household, there are approximately 117,687,214 households in the US. That means

that EACH household would receive more than $8497. What could you do with that?

Let's get social, shall we?

As of 2007, there were an estimated 671,859 homeless people in the United

States. With $1 trillion, we could give EACH homeless person approximately

$1,488,407!

According to I Care About Orphans, there is an estimated 127,000 children

awaiting homes in the United States. With $1 trillion, we could give EACH child

more than $7,874,000.

In 2006, it was estimated that there were 36,500,000 people in the US living in

poverty. With $1 trillion, you could give EACH person living in poverty more

than $26,000.

Are you grasping what $1 trillion is yet?

Former Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee had some interesting figures.

According to him, with $1 trillion, we could buy 1000 boxes of Girl Scout

Cookies for every for every single person in the United States or we could put

8,000,000-plus students through a four-year Private College. Huckabee came up

with this, but I did some re-figuring for more current estimates and according

to the market values which appeared on Forbes for early Feb, 2009, with $1

trillion, we could actually purchase Microsoft ($168B), Walmart ($188B), Google

($107B), Coca-Cola ($100B), Pepsi Co ($80B), Apple, Inc ($83B), and Time Warner

($35B) and still have $243 Billion left over to purchase even more businesses!

Astounding? Do you get it yet? $1 trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. Warren

Buffett, the richest man in the world, according to Forbes, is worth $62

billion. That is not even CLOSE to $1 trillion! So, the next time our Elected

Officials tell you they need any where near $1 trillion, please remember just

what $1 trillion is really worth!

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> > > > Natasa, the quote you posted is about allowing experiments on human

> > > embryos. Sorry there is a MASSIVE moral dimension to this and he can't

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> > > behind the language of scientific objectivity.

> > > > Very off topic,and I'm not going to get into a debate here, but Obama

> > > DOES have an agenda which includes compelling individual States to allow

> > > partial birth abortion(the horrors of which I won't describe), even when

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> > > State legislature has expressly forbidden it, presumably this is in the

> > > cause of women's rights as he sees it.

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