How is your Math?

February 14, 2009 Blog

The Democrats are rejoicing that they were able to rob Americans of their hard-earned money in order to spread the wealth among those who voted for them. The $789 billion "stimulus package" passed the Senate with the help of three Democrats disguised as Republicans. Obama and friends don't count the interest payments which will amount to $300 billion, bringing the total to over a trillion Dollars.

Our elected representatives are adept at stealing and spending non-existent money.

Printing presses in the U.S. Treasury Department are running at full speed, producing worthless money which, when it enters circulation, will reduce the value of all currency. Because printing one Dollar produces several non-existent Dollars (checks, electronic transfers, etc.), the thievery is multiplied. If the government tried to get that money from us through taxation, Americans would all complain and scream in protest. So they steal it from us by diluting it with worthless paper and claim that they are doing us a favor. They argue that if they didn’t take our money, the economic situation would get much worse.
 

So people who worked hard and saved for retirement with the promise of good interest rates, are now discovering that their savings have actually shrunk by a third. Politicians tell you that it is because of the lousy economy. In truth, they stole that money.

None of the Representatives who signed off on the stimulus package knew what it contained. They didn't have time to read it. I doubt if many of them could tell you how many zeros there are behind the number one in a trillion.

A billion is a one with nine zeros ($1,000,000,000) and a trillion is a one with a dozen zeros ($1,000,000,000,000).

A million Dollars in $1000 bills would make a stack 4 inches high. A billion Dollars of the same denomination would be 333 feet high and a trillion would make a stack nearly 60 miles high! We are talking $1000 bills!

With a trillion Dollars, you could purchase Microsoft, Google, WalMart, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, and still have $23 billion left over. I heard in the news that the American peanut industry is worth $800 million, so you could purchase that and 25 or 30 other such industries.

The population of America is about 350,000,000 (not counting illegal aliens). If you spread the debt among these, every man, woman and child in America would be billed $2857. But half the population is non-productive -- children, students, prisoners, drug addicts, criminals, welfare recipients, unemployed, retirees, lawyers and most politicians (parasites are non-productive). Many of these are beneficiaries of the wealth spreading. Only productive Americans will have to pick up the tab for the stimulus package. If you are one of these, your part of the debt will be around $6,000. Does that motivate you to work?

Washington politicians don't care what we think. Half a million of us signed the "No Stimulus" petition, but they were not impressed. In a worst case scenario, they won’t get reelected and will be forced to perform another kind of "bail-out". They will use their golden parachutes and retire on some tropical island. And productive Americans will pay for it.