# Interesting email I got...
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863 "2008-01-15T10:46:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/1 "2008-01-15T10:46:56Z")
**[COLOR=black]File this under WTF.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]YOUR tax money.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]but one advertising agency did a good job of**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]putting that figure into some perspective in**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]one of its releases.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black] living in the Stone Age.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]E.** [/COLOR]**[FONT=Tahoma]A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and**[/FONT]
**20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.**
**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let’s take a look at** [/COLOR][/FONT]**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]New Orleans**[/COLOR][/FONT] **[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division** [/COLOR][/FONT]
**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for** [/COLOR][/FONT]**[FONT=Tahoma]$250 BILLION**[/FONT] **[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?**[/COLOR][/FONT]
**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of**[/COLOR][/FONT]
**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]New Orleans**[/COLOR][/FONT]**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma] (every man, woman, child), you**[/COLOR][/FONT]
**[COLOR=black] each get $516,528.**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black]B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in**[/COLOR]
**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]New Orleans**[/COLOR][/FONT]**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma] , your home gets $1,329,787.**[/COLOR][/FONT]
**[COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family**[/COLOR][/FONT]
**[COLOR=black] gets $2,066,012.**[/COLOR][COLOR=black] [/quote][/COLOR]
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### Author:  [@Hass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hass)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/2 "2008-01-15T10:49:07Z")
o.O Interesting?
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/3 "2008-01-15T10:51:18Z")
So the US government killed Jesus?
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/4 "2008-01-15T10:52:44Z")
Pretty much, those bastards.
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### Author:  [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/5 "2008-01-15T10:53:41Z")
so you are saying you believe in evolution?
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/6 "2008-01-15T10:54:01Z")
yeah. because all of that money will go to an individual family. not to any businesses, companies, or other infrastructure.
:roll2:
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/7 "2008-01-15T10:58:16Z")
> [@JEG"](#):
>
> > **[COLOR=black]D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.**[/COLOR]
Must. Not. Make. Comment. Be. Mature. Gahh!
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### Author:  [@GhettoDaxx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GhettoDaxx)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/8 "2008-01-15T10:58:44Z")
yeah whatever, just print moar money
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### Author:  [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/9 "2008-01-15T11:01:03Z")
> [@GhettoDaxx](#):
>
> yeah whatever, just print moar money
+1. Remove the $1 and $5 from circulation and add in $1000 and $5000 denoms. Problem solved!
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/10 "2008-01-15T11:02:37Z")
> [@newman](#):
>
> yeah. because all of that money will go to an individual family. not to any businesses, companies, or other infrastructure.
>
> :roll2:
No but it makes you think, it would be a lot cheaper to offer everybody 1/2 that money if they just GTFO of N.O…
No matter how much money is spent it will STILL BE BELOW SEA LEVEL IN HURRICANE ALLEY!!!
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### Author:  [@ubengineering](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ubengineering)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/11 "2008-01-15T11:02:41Z")
> [@GhettoDaxx](#):
>
> yeah whatever, just print moar money
that definitley wont affect inflation at all :picard:
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### Author:  [@66impalass](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/66impalass)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/12 "2008-01-15T11:56:11Z")
wait the actually have the internet in Bum Fuck Egypt?
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### Author:  [@eclipsed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/eclipsed)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/13 "2008-01-15T12:01:11Z")
> [@GhettoDaxx](#):
>
> yeah whatever, just print moar money
Moar money?
are you kidding me? :cjerk:
i wonder what political party the author of that email is affiliated with??? :bloated:
what terrible arguments.
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/interesting-email-i-got/41863/14 "2008-01-15T12:02:27Z")
they couldn’t even get simple math right in this email:
> **[FACT CHECK: Billions and Billions](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/billions-and-billions/)**
>
> How much is a billion.
also, this is from 2003.