$87,000,000,000.00

by Volker Weber

"A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon it starts to add up to some real money."

On September 7th, 2003, President Bush announced on national television that he was asking the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But $87 billion is an impossibly high number for anyone to visualize.

Let's have a look ...

[via Stefan Smalla]

Comments

30,000,000,000 Euro
Das ist die Summe, die laut dem Bund der Steuerzahler in JEDEM Jahr bei uns verschwendet werden. Der Schwachsinn ist international.
http://www.steuerzahler.de/inhalt/static.phtml?link=schwarzbuch03/schwarzbuch.htm

Christian, 2003-10-14

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