Not much in the news worth passing on this week.
From Time magazine, October 6, 2008 issue:
What you could do with $700,000,000,000The bailout package is a whole lotta clams!
• Give every person in the U.S. $2,300 or give every househould $6,200
• Pay the income taxes of every American who makes $500,000 or less a year
• Fully fund the Defense, Treasury, Education, State, Veterans Affairs and Interior departments next year, as well as NASA
• Buy gasoline for every car in the U.S. for 16 months
• Buy every NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball team and build each one a new stadium — and pay your players $191 million apiece for a year
• Create the 17th largest economy in the world — roughly equal to that of the Netherlands
Or you could pay off just 7% of the $9.8 trillion national debt.
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Nauseating, isn't it?
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