God Spare New Orleans

Originally Posted by classicman

This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the Word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about Whether you want the 'politicians' spending
YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in

One of it's releases.

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A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain...

let's take a look at New Orleans ...

It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans.

Interesting number... What does it mean?

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Oh man.....this is still floating around on conservative message boards?

It is from 2005 and of course is not entirely accurate about the funding request. More than hallf of that $250b was not in federal spending but in temporary tax abatements, shared leased revenue from off-shore oil facilities, etc.

I think Congress ended up apprpriating more than $100b and I would hope and expect the same for any city/region devasted by a disaster the scale of Katrina.