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$1,600,000,000,000.00
There you go.
And no ... that's not Obama's new budget. That's Obama's projection for the budget DEFICIT this year! That's money we don't have. That's money we're going to have to borrow. That's money our children and grandchildren are going to have to pay back. Or ... .that's debt our country will eventually try to discharge in bankruptcy.
Let me try to put that $1.6 trillion in perspective. We're going on a spending spree. Let's see ..... how much do we want to spend an hour? Does $100,000 an hour work for you? $100,000 an hour 24 hours a day 365 days a year ... and we're going to keep on spending at $100K an hour until we've spent the entire $1.6 trillion.
The first day goes by. How much have we spent? That one's easy. We've spent $2,400,000. We now have the house of our dreams, a few tremendous cars and some nice bling.
The first year goes by. How much have we spent? Try $876,000,000. That's $876 million dollars. Is there anything else you could possibly want? I'm thinking you're starting to give money away to complete strangers by now.
You're well on your way to spending $1,600,000,000. But wait! Look at that figure above! There's some extra zeros there. That $1,600,000,000 you're edging up on is in billions, not trillions. You will reach that spending level in 564 days. That's 564 days of spending $100,000 an hour 24/7.
So ... let's move in on that $1.6 trillion dollar figure. It took you 564 days to knock off your first $1.6 billion ... so how much to spend this year's deficit? How about 666,490? Yup ... that's the figure. That's how long it takes you to spend this year's deficit at $100,000 an hour. If you want that figure to sound a bit more reasonable ... try 1,826 years.
That's not the worse of it. This is just one year's deficit. The Obama budget projects $8 trillion in deficits over the next ten years. How long would it take for our $100,000/hr spending spree to take care of that? Try 9,132 years.
Read the whole thing at THE OBAMABUDGET - Nealz Nuze on boortz.com
