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If I here one more time some politician or pundit, either liberal or conservitive, say that 10 billion or 50 billion (pick your amount) is just a rounding error I’m going to throw something at the TV. Anything with the word billion behind it is real money ; taxes paid by tens of thousands of US citizens.
I’m with you Fritz. For a while I was saying it was a “rounding error” until I realized how stupid that is.
Like you said, it’s real money. Rarely do politicians from either side acknowledge this, which is why they can never seem to spend the money well.
We’ve got a crumbling infrastructure, under-performing schools, and millions of Americans with inadequate health care, yet somehow the government manages to spend trillions of dollars to get those bad outcomes.
You know there’s a saying that if you take care of your pennies the dollars will follow so that could be expanded to if you take care of your millions the billions will follow! (and maybe even your trillions!
And forget about ‘millions’. That’s how they can justify their personal spending, and most of the earmarks. It’s pretty bizarre when a few million is chump change.
Just a few short years ago astronomer Carl Sagan would tell us that there’s “BILLions and BILLions of stars in the cosmos” and we all thought that was really something. Now, with our national debt beyond 14,000 billion… pffft.
“The Ed Show” got some new graphics and new studio today… and, I must say, it looked pretty awesome. I guess they figured since Ed is in prime time, he deserves his own studio. He took advantage of it with some snazzy charts and cool backgrounds.
P.S. If I remember correctly, Ed did the first 8 months or so of his show in the main MSNBC studio set, and then they moved him to what they call the “news nook”. Now, it looks like he got a little promotion.
I just thought people should know… if they care to know.
April 11, 2011 at 8:42 am
I vote for Red Eye as the Glenn Beck replacement at 5:00 p.m. (Never gonna happen, but I can dream.)
April 11, 2011 at 10:35 am
If I here one more time some politician or pundit, either liberal or conservitive, say that 10 billion or 50 billion (pick your amount) is just a rounding error I’m going to throw something at the TV. Anything with the word billion behind it is real money ; taxes paid by tens of thousands of US citizens.
April 11, 2011 at 10:54 am
^here…hear sorry
April 11, 2011 at 11:32 am
I’m with you Fritz. For a while I was saying it was a “rounding error” until I realized how stupid that is.
Like you said, it’s real money. Rarely do politicians from either side acknowledge this, which is why they can never seem to spend the money well.
We’ve got a crumbling infrastructure, under-performing schools, and millions of Americans with inadequate health care, yet somehow the government manages to spend trillions of dollars to get those bad outcomes.
April 11, 2011 at 11:50 am
Good point, fritz.
April 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Hallelujah fritz!
You know there’s a saying that if you take care of your pennies the dollars will follow so that could be expanded to if you take care of your millions the billions will follow! (and maybe even your trillions!
April 11, 2011 at 4:06 pm
And forget about ‘millions’. That’s how they can justify their personal spending, and most of the earmarks. It’s pretty bizarre when a few million is chump change.
April 11, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Just a few short years ago astronomer Carl Sagan would tell us that there’s “BILLions and BILLions of stars in the cosmos” and we all thought that was really something. Now, with our national debt beyond 14,000 billion… pffft.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
April 11, 2011 at 11:41 pm
“The Ed Show” got some new graphics and new studio today… and, I must say, it looked pretty awesome. I guess they figured since Ed is in prime time, he deserves his own studio. He took advantage of it with some snazzy charts and cool backgrounds.
P.S. If I remember correctly, Ed did the first 8 months or so of his show in the main MSNBC studio set, and then they moved him to what they call the “news nook”. Now, it looks like he got a little promotion.
I just thought people should know… if they care to know.