Poor Richard's News

That's right. One point six trillion dollars. More than twice as much as the Federal Government has ever spent on anything, ever. That's how much the congressional budget office estimates we'll be spending for B.O.'s version of government-run health care. So much for paygo. So much for fiscal responsibility. So much for reason. Who's going to pay for this? Seriously.


Fun facts about $1.6 Trillion

• Pennies could be stacked 154 million miles; i.e. about 62 million miles past the sun.
• End-to-end, dollar bills would stretch around the Earth more than 6 times.
• Dollar Bills would weigh 3.5 billion pounds; about the same as all the people in Texas.
• Nickels would weigh a mere 17.6 billion pounds; roughly the same weight as all the people in Wyoming, Washington DC, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee, Indiana, Massachusetts, Arizona and Washington...combined.
  
• Here's the clincher: you could spend one dollar every second and it would take you not one year, not ten years, not a thousand years, but over fifty thousand years to spend it all. Fifty. Thousand. Years.

Come on people. There is no crisis even close the to crisis that we'll cause by spending this inconceivable amount of money. Let your congressman know today!