Career politicians use the word, "BILLIONS" In a casual manner. A billion is a difficult number to wrap my brain around and I assume a difficult number for you to wrap your brain around too!.
However let me put a BILLION INTO A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE FOR YOU ALL.
A BILLION seconds ago it was 1959.
A BILLION minutes ago Jesus Christ was still alive!
A BILLION hours ago our ancestors were still living in the stone age!
A BILLION years ago Evolutionist tell us no form of humanity walked the planet.
A BILLION DOLLARS ago the federal government spent that amount in Eight hours and twenty minutes, at the present rate of spending.
While these thoughts are still fresh in our minds, lets take a look at hurricane Katrina, just in New Orleans, which is considered our governments greatest failure. Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu asked the Congress for 250 BILLION dollars to rebuild New Orleans. If you were one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans it would mean that you would receive 516,258 each! over 1/2 million dollars. or, if you had one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans, each household would get1,329,787 Dollars, or if you were a family of four you would receive 2,066,012 dollars.
But what went wrong? Did the residents get the monies? Who spent the BILLIONS? The Answer is the career politicians and their cronies did, you know the tax and spend crowd.
Here is a poem: author unknown
Tax his land, tax his wage, tax the bed on which he lays! Tax his tractor, tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule. Tax his pants, tax his coat, tax his ties, tax his shirt, tax him even if he tries to shirk.
Tax his bills, tax his gas, tax his notes tax his cash, if he cries tax his tears! Tax him good and let him know, after taxes he'll have no dough. If he hollers, tax him more, tax him till he's good and sore. Tax his coffin, tax his grave. Tax the sod in which he lays. Put these words upon his tomb, Taxes drove him to his doom and when he's gone we won't relax, we will go after his inheritance TAX!
The following list of taxable items did not exist 100 years ago.
Cigarette tax. Corporate Tax, Dog License Tax. Federal Unemployment Tax. Fishing License Tax. Food license tax. Fuel permit tax. Gasoline Tax. Hunting license tax. Inheritance tax. Inventory tax. IRS Interest and penalties tax {taxes on top of taxes}. Liquor tax. Luxury tax. Marriage License Tax. Medicare tax. Property Tax. Real estate tax. Recreational Vehicle tax. Road usage tax {truckers}. Sales tax. Services charge tax. Social security tax. State income tax. State unemployment tax. Telephone taxes {federal excise tax, universal tax, federal, state and local Surcharge tax, Minimum usage tax, recurring and non-recurring tax}. Utility tax. Vehicle sales tax. Watercraft registration tax. and last but not least well permit tax!
Now we have two candidates from the Democrats that promise to raise our taxes some more.
Much as I hate to say this, Vote McCain 2008!