How many zeros in a billion?

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[SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 26pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"]How many zeros in a billion?[/SPAN][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"]  [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]  [DIV class=MsoNormal][FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

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[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=6][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]This is too true to be funny.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=4][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=4][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=6][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]The next time you hear a politician use the[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
whether you want the 'politicians' spending[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
YOUR tax money.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but one advertising agency did a good job of[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
putting that figure into some perspective in[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
one of it's releases.[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]


[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]A.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]A billion seconds ago it was 1959.[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]

[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]B.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]

[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]C.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]A billion hours ago our ancestors were[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
living in the Stone Age.[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]

[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]D.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]

[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=#cc0000 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]E.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=#cc0000 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]A billion dollars ago was only[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=#cc0000 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]8 hours and[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] 20 minutes,[/SPAN][/FONT][/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=#cc0000 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]at the rate our government[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=#cc0000 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #cc0000; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]is spending it.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"]
[FONT face=Arial][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"] [/SPAN][/FONT][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]While this thought is still fresh in our brain...[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]let's take a look at New Orleans .....[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"]
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[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
[SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"]Louisiana Senator,[/SPAN][/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Mary Landrieu (D)[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]is presently askingCongress[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]for[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=#006600 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #006600; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]250[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]  BILLION DOLLARS[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]to rebuild New Orleans .  Interesting number...[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]what does it mean?[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]

[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]A.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of  New Orleans[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"](every man, woman, and child)[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]you[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]each[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] get [/SPAN][/FONT][/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=#006600 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #006600; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]$516,528.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
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[/SPAN][/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Ge orgia" color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: 'Ge orgia'"]B.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=#006600 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #006600; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]  $1,329,787.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]

[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]C.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Or... if you are a family of four...[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] your family[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] gets [/SPAN][/FONT][/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=#006600 size=5][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: #006600; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]$2,066,012.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
Washington, D.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]C[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]HELLO![/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Are all your calculators broken??[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Accounts Receivable Tax[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
Building Permit Tax[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
CDL License Tax[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
Cigarette Tax[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
Corporate Income Tax[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
Dog License Tax[FONT face=Georgia][SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT]
Federal Income Tax
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=green size=2][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License T ax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax!
Tele phone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"] [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=red size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face="Georg ia" color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georg ia'"]STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
We had absolutely no national debt...[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]We had the largest middle class in the world...[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]and Mom stayed home to raise the kids[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]. [/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=blue size=4][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=5][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"]
What happened?[/SPAN][/FONT][FONT face=Arial color=black size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"][/SPAN][/FONT]

[DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center][FONT face=Georgia color=black size=6][SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"][/SPAN][/FONT] [/DIV]

[Lise]

Whoa. Never knew that before. Quite ironic indeed.

[Richard]

I'm glad I don't live in the U.S.

[P.C.]

I don't think the tax situation is any better in Canada.

[Sportsdude]

Things are starting to fall apart here.  

[Sportsdude]

Apparently billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is going to save us.  

[Gopher]

Well goody for him then.  

[Sportsdude]

Yeah woot! the oil barron's are going to get us off oil. hilarious thought.  

[Gopher]

Dont worry, he'll still make his money out of us.

[Sportsdude]

That's his plan even in his late stage of life.  

[Gopher]

Plenty of ancients like that I'm afraid....while they think they can make another cent, they'll cling on to life.

[Sportsdude]

Yeah, they're in their legacy period, when their ego goes uncontrolled and want to be associated with everything and anything so they can live forever in a life size statue.  

[Gopher]

Sportsdude wrote:
Yeah, they're in their legacy period, when their ego goes uncontrolled and want to be associated with everything and anything so they can live forever in a life size statue[FONT color=#0000ff]...which we'll have to pay for![/FONT]  

[Sportsdude]

 Yup. Actually I think this guy already has a bunch of busts. Gives millions to Oklahoma State University, they named the football stadium after him. He's given over 400 million most of which has gone to the athletic's programme, which if you know anything about the NCAA isn't actually concerned with academia. 400 million for basketball teams to graduate maybe 1 player on the team.

   

[49er]

all he's saying.........

  .....there aren't enough oil in the US to satisfy current consumption even with more drilling

.....minimise use of oil for electricity, instead use wind turbines and use natural gas, both of which the US has abundance of, to genearate electricity.  Oil companies already owns 50% of the natural gas wells so will cooperate.

.....the Saudis will not increase oil production and price of gas will plateau at $6/ gal next year

  I'm all for anyone who proposes ways to cut our reliance on oil.   Anyway I rather listen to a guy in the oil/energy business in search of a legacy then a lawyer/politician looking for votes or pork barrel funds for his home state to find a way out of this energy mass.