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- thesmrt12004, on 10/17/2007, -1/+40I want a giant cube of money
- n0t0kayipr0mis3, on 10/14/2007, -3/+41Let's see if our next president can dig us out of this hole like Clinton did. Don't care what you think, Clinton was good to the economy.
- 309east, on 10/14/2007, -0/+37I don't know why 'ole GW bothers to tax the American people at all. As it is, he has borrowed more money then every president before him added together. The piddling few dollars he collects from taxes are nothing compared the the amount created out of thin air by the federal reserve. Thats why folks don't even bother trying to visualize the amount of money our government is wasting, they know only a small portion of it is theirs, the rest is made by magic.
- petemcfraser, on 10/13/2007, -0/+21FTA: "If we spread the $87 billion over an American football field, we would not be able to see much of the game. The players would be buried in 55 feet of money."
You mean they're not already? - Chizz44, on 10/14/2007, -0/+20That makes me mad.
- FloppyLlamaDigg, on 10/13/2007, -0/+17Yeah, $315 Billion dollars is chump change.
NEWS FLASH: IT IS A CRAZY AMOUNT - ChromaVita, on 10/14/2007, -4/+20Conspiracy!!! The ammount of money spent on the war in Iraq is quickly growing to double that last ammount! Thus:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6018/52410879vc ...
These are the facts people! - pintomp3, on 10/13/2007, -0/+15billions of tax payer money is being funneled into the hands of contractors and mercenaries and thousands of soldiers dying, and you have a problem with the denomination?
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -1/+15Don't EVER FORGET who re-elected this Idiot! Complete retards you Bush psychos are!!
Bush is a border-line retard corporate puppet. Never forget who supported this failure, don't let them distance themselves from him. Whining about Libs and Dems and Clinton and Kerry and gay sex, while offering nothing of substance - and most notably - no defense for the lying little sack of ***** from Texas they shackled us with!
America's enemy is the idiot who IGNORES that Bush lied to us about Iraq, IGNORES that Bush raped our treasury, IGNORES that Bush defends treason, IGNORES that Bush was asleep at the wheel on 9/11, IGNORES that Bush had already blundered our war effort in Iraq, IGNORES that Bush still tries to link Iraq and 911, IGNORES that Bush was going to run amok with our Constitution, IGNORES his continued policy that fuels extremist groups and floods intelligence agencies with "false positives" from illegal wiretapping operations—among other things and still voted to re-elect this miserable failure.
The enemy from within has perpetuated this death and devastation. Don't forget it.
It is because of a bush voter that the country is in the atrocious position it is in today. - SocialPoison, on 10/14/2007, -1/+15Clinton's spending still pales in comparison to the Iraq war.
Oh and guess what... that spending actually helped the country, you dumb *****. - Grumps, on 10/14/2007, -1/+13With 87 billions we can flood New York with alot of World Trade Center. We can make homes for homeless for the whole nation.
- scabbers, on 10/14/2007, -0/+10Pile up the corpses next to it, too.
- beyondinfinity, on 10/13/2007, -0/+10Easily could have been used to help the less fortunate of this world...
- pintomp3, on 10/13/2007, -1/+10bush - we won't stop until we spend two towers worth of money.
- bratpack8, on 10/13/2007, -0/+9Exactly 309, when you can print money and nobody notices, why wouldn't you? Who gets the money first is the key, just like a counterfeiter, who can spend it before prices rise.
- Vazelos, on 10/14/2007, -0/+8The real problem is yet to come. Bush has created an artificial barrier for good politicians in the US to surface. Who the hell would like to take over this mess? Only people who can maintain it, because there is no way back now.
Unfortunately for all of us, with all the money spent and to be spent in Iraq, US has accelerated its economic difficulties and gave room to China to sooner become the new super power of the world. I am not from the US but US policies affect the world, thus I care. And as much as I hate saying this, I would rather have the US affecting my country (European one) than China with less regard to constitutions, agreements, conventions, laws and basic humanity. - FreakyD, on 10/14/2007, -1/+8I thought i was being greedy just wanting a million......
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -0/+7Yeah, but since the Dollar isn't backed by gold, you can just print as much as you want!
// sarcasm - Terr01, on 10/13/2007, -0/+6Yeah, they should have just used a check!
Like Floppy said, it *is* a crazy amount. You know, like a thousand bucks for every man, woman, and child in America? - MightyTonto, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6Oxfam claim £720 or roughly $1440 is enough to give 1000 people clean water...That's 219 MILLION people.
They say £1,700 or £3400 is the cost of building a whole classroom...That's 93 MILLION classrooms
That's just disgusting.
Other than obliterating trust and relations through the eyes of every single other nation in the world...what has this achieved?
History will look upon him as the man who broke the world - Bdog2g2, on 10/13/2007, -1/+7"He taxed the hell out of everyone"
As opposed to firing up the printners?
See by him taxing us, he paid for what the government spent with money already in the system. That kept the value of the dollar, that thing you use to buy things, up. Which is why you were able to travel to Europe and actually buy *****.
Now Georgie Porgie said "***** that, this here HP printer can make money and I don't need to take it from the people. This dollar looks like all the rest". Except now the dollars that Georgie is spending are worth much less than the ones Clinton spent or taxed us on. - Tetraca, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6If we put that much focus onto improving our education system....
- ZenMojo, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6So we are spending twice as much money this year on Iraq than on the United States? Holy ***** in a ***** hat....
How many starving people without healthcare could this pay for? - Santiak, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5What about the dead?
According to an estimate published in the medical journal "The Lancet" the Iraq war has resulted in 650,000 deaths.
If each of those bodies where to be aligned, the line would be ~570 miles long, almost the highway distance between New York and Cincinnati!
Enough bodies to fill ~700 large cargo containers.
If each of those containers where to be carried to Washington on an 18-wheeler, the line of trucks will expand from 9 miles.
***** Bush!! - TremorX, on 10/13/2007, -1/+5If we'd only use 2 dollar bills, it'd be half that much.
THINK ABOUT IT, AMERICA! - atbnet, on 10/13/2007, -0/+4No *****!
If they did it in cash they would have to use entire trucks shipped to all their buddies houses. - Bdog2g2, on 10/13/2007, -0/+4You must ***** billion dollar bills.
- coolbru, on 10/14/2007, -1/+5If you voted for bush, your vote probably got counted at least once, if not several times. How else could he win?
- neurosport, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3they show this to us, people who can understand what a billion is without any help
they dont show this on TV where people really need it - Damian91, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3The same idiots I know that voted for Bush are now a basher. I hate how followers are allowed to vote -_-
- ZenMojo, on 10/14/2007, -0/+3What about the people who voted for him twice?
- Eizz, on 10/13/2007, -1/+4This is why they invented the $100 dollar bill.
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -0/+3Yeah. Helping poor Americans sucks!
- audiophiliac, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3All of us in the States, all of the illegal immigrants in the states, all of Mexico, all of the Caribbean, all of Ethiopia, and all of Guam I'm guessing.
- Jarodd, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3With 320 billions, USA would be a freaking paradize utopia right now, or maybe, save the word from hunger ? diseases ?
- ettin, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2So...the federal reserve prints monopoly money?
- shadowsurfr1, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2Only George dubya Bush can get that much.
- phantom_mullet, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2And we wonder why the dollar is dropping like a rock...
- Ighuc, on 10/13/2007, -0/+2I wish I could vote twice...
- conceptkid, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2That is insanity.
- audiophiliac, on 10/13/2007, -0/+2Surprisingly when the tech boom went down, I was happily working my warehouse job of $18 an hour for a fiber optics company, their stock split at $180 per share to $90 then two hours later down to $14 a share. Three years later, I was still working there. No one messed with my income those years.
- jambarama, on 10/13/2007, -0/+2Don't worry, this isn't even close to accurate. Not because we've spent less, but because we've spent money we don't even have to spend!
A more realistic picture would be something like this, with the tower of interest we'll have to pay back right next to it. - notmrright, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2pretty amazing..............i do think we have some responsibilities to ourselves and others to do some things in other parts of the world -- the planet gets smaller every day, but i don't like a lot of things we are doing
- PerfektXj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sites lagging, heres a mirror for those who need http://m3.bestpicever.com/piles/?s=315billiondolla ...
- johnnyfatstacks, on 10/13/2007, -1/+2seen something similar before but definitely worth another look...
- kmiller2087, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1hopefully halliburton or blackwater will have change, otherwise bush will feel like a jerk paying with all those ones.
- n0t0kayipr0mis3, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1He marginalized the deficit, that's all there is to it. Bush has ***** America so bad that it will take a million Clintons to marginalize this one.
- Randinn, on 10/14/2007, -0/+1Ah, but no one in government wants that....
- gerrylazlo, on 06/24/2008, -0/+1Not according to this:
http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/
There may be some caveats, but it's a fair reflection of our financial makeup. Iraq and the war on terror are pretty ***** far from a drop in the bucket. - M0b1u5, on 10/14/2007, -0/+187 Billion? That's a JOKE.
Try "2 TRILLION".
Or USD 2,000,000,000,000 - That makes 87 Billion look like the chump change that it is. -
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