Ramblings

President Obama has proposed over 3 Trillion dollars of new spending.....the bail outs, the stimulus bills plus the budget. 3 trillion dollars of new spending!! Now much is 3 trillion dollars? If you had a stack of 100 dollar bills, the stack would be 40" high...a little over 3 feet, to reach 1 million dollars. It would be almost 3,580 feet high to reach 1 billion. If you were to stack 100 dollar bills until you reached 3 trillion dollars, the stack would be over 2,000 MILES high, almost 250 times higher than jet planes fly. (I know that doesn't seem possible but do the math and you'll see I'm right) Have you ever wondered why they always "round up" when proposing a budget? Is 3 trillion dollars really needed or was it 2 trillion, 750 billion and they just decided to "Round up". When you "Round up" with billions of dollars, think about how many billions are wasted and not necessary. Now, when a project, costing around $50,000,000 (rounded up from $47, 567,000) is proposed, its treated as little more than chump change, based on how our lawmakers treat our money. $50,000,000 would build 500 homes worth $100,000 each, for poor families without decent shelter. One billion could build a whole town of 10,000. The 9 billion in pork that Senator Reid stuck in the stimulus bill, for the High Speed rail System, could build an city of 90,000. That is hardly chump change! This out of control spending has got to stop and we have to start looking for candidates that will truly look carfully on how they spend our money!