According to the United States treasury, a One Dollar Bill has a thickness of 0.0043 inches. One thousand One Dollar Bills would be one thousand times thicker — 4.3 inches.

One million is one thousand thousands, so the thickness of $1,000,000 is 4300 inches. Converting to feet and this becomes 358.3 feet, an American football field.

One billion — $1,000,000,000 is one thousand times thicker still or 358,333.3 feet. This is 67.866 miles, the driving distance from New York City to Milford CT.

One Trillion is one thousand billions – one trillion One Dollar Bills stacked one on top of another is 67,866 miles. This would circumnavigate the globe 2.73 times.

The proposed 700 Billion Dollar bailout alone would be a stack of One Dollar Bills stretching 47,506.2 miles, or 1.90 times around the globe.

A stack of One Dollar Bills totaling the current national debt cap of 10.6 trillion dollars would go around the equator 28.93 times. The proposed cap of 11.3 trillion dollars would go around 30.85 times.

Is creating a debt that is the equivalent of a stack of One Dollar Bills rounding planet 31 times a responsible act?

Now where are those damn WMDs again?

They are in Wall Street, the Pentagon, The White House, Congress, and the Senate.

Did anyone bother to point out that the revenue collected thru corporate income taxes has been going down steadily for years?

All I can say is this: Pt your money in metals ASAP, store up food and protection, don’t be afraid to work pumping gas, picking up garbage, driving a mail courier truck, digging ditches, waitressing, and taking care of sick. Especially if you had a good paying job and now it is gone. Lower your expenses drastically. Pay your debts ASAP. Don’t take SSRIs and overindulge in drugs and alcohol.

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The top 1% paid $368,132 million in 2007 [AIG 364k and above]
The top 50% paid $906,028 million in 2007 [AIG 30k and above]
The Bottom 50% paid 28,675 million in 2007 [AIG 30k and below]

Pies, who likely got their figure from some pundit, assumes that because the wealthy paid 90% of taxes and that everyone else should not worry. I have shown how demonstrably false his argument is. The top 50% paid 90% of all taxes and many of them make just over 30k a year. You dont have to be wealthy to speak your mind on this legislation.

He needs to tell the Democratic leadership in Congress what he, as our next president, requires on the first day in office, not what the lame-duck, criminal Republican President Bush wants.

We already know that Bush’s plan will bail-out the few at the expense of the rest of us, with no guarantees put in place (regulations) that might just stop this from happening again.

So, Barack Obama, if he doesn’t want to be handed a pig in the poke after being inaugurated in January, needs to make quite clear what specific “Main Street” provisions MUST be in any bail-out bill up for consideration.

Furthermore, by offering his own bail-out proposal tomorrow, Barack Obama would be showing that he isn’t “just another George W. Bush.” Which would make John McCain highly uncomfortable especially if McCain doesn’t offer his own bail-out proposal tomorrow, showing that McCain IS “just another George W. Bush.”

Barack Obama isn’t just running against McCain and the corrupt Republican machine, he’s running against the last eight years of the most corrupt and criminal administration in American history, the Bush/Cheney administration.

By offering his own “Main Street” bail-out proposal, Barack Obama can take the initiative away from the criminal Republicans while painting McCain and Palin as into a corner, along with all the other criminal Republicans who’ve done so much damage to our democracy.

The 1% surely didnt create the whole banking/investment/subprime/credit mess, some may have, but even then its unfair to stick them with the irresponsibility of Wall Street. Bailing out bad behavior isnt the solution to the problem, if anything it makes the problem worse as they have learned that government will bail them out save the financial system. Its rewarding corruption and it reeks of socialism, it also has destroyed whatever free market their was.

Look at all the Wall Street employees that lost jobs. Are they being bailed out? No.

As for American Pie, the American dollar is the American peoples dollar and they have every reason to be concerned.

Besides I thought Republicans were for Fiscal responsibility? For transparency? For smaller government? Less spending.

But that all gets tossed out the window when they start cheerleading for their ‘Team’ Government and political parties arent a athletic event, it is isnt a spectator sport. It our elected, and in this case, non-elected servants running amok in your house.

Who pays 90% of taxes? Poor people? You? No, the very rich do. So who’s money is bailing out Wall Street? It’s the rich people and corporations -American Pie

I have heard this bogus argument before, they dont pay 90% of all taxes. The top 1 percent of taxpayers (AGI over $364,657) earned approximately 21.2 percent of the nation’s income (as defined by AGI), yet paid 39.4 percent of all federal income taxes.

They dont pay 60% of all federal income taxes.

And I doubt you make over 364k a year American Pie. Your whole argument hers is just silly as you dont seem to understand taxes or the economy.

This type of arrogance is only possible when you believe there will be no repercussions!

republicanSScareme Says:
I want to thank our leaders for protecting us from the demonic Jews.

I take offense at your blatant racism.

Having no respect for Israel’s government and it’s actions does not equate to hating all Jews.

The pnac and other lobbyist for the Israeli government are definatly part of our problem but you can’t blame a race for it. There are Jews who are against what is being done on thier behalf.

Your posts are not only racist but they are also counter productive to any progressive idea that you might think you unerstand.

His name is bOner, w/ a long “o”. John bOner.

Or am I speaking to soon?

I don’t EVER want to hear a GOP pig squeal ever again about “Well, that is socialist!” when it seems that they’re all for it so long as it is the taxpayer bailing out big businesses ran by incompetent and irresponsible “free market” capitalists.

Henry M. Paulson
AKA Henry Merrit Paulson, Jr.
Born: 28-Mar-1946
Birthplace: Palm Beach, FL
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian Science
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Business, Government
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Secretary of the Treasury

“Mr. Paulson is very much of an alpha male: he will challenge colleagues to wrestling matches and once halted a game of paddle tennis to vomit before resuming play and winning the match.” The New York Times, 2-Jun-2006.

Wife: Wendy (one son, one daughter)
Son: Henry M. Paulson III
Daughter: Amanda Clark

High School: Barrington High School, Barrington, IL (1964)
University: AB English, Dartmouth College (1968)
University: MBA, Harvard Business School (1970)

US Secretary of the Treasury (10-Jul-2006 to present)
Goldman Sachs CEO (1999-2006)
Goldman Sachs President and COO (1994-98)
Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Executive (1983-94)
Goldman Sachs (1974-2006, as Partner, 1982-2006)
Member of the Board of Goldman Sachs (as Chairman, 1999-2006)
Bilderberg Group
Bill Bradley for President
Bush-Cheney ‘04
Bush-Quayle ‘92
Friends of Roy Blunt
McCain 2000
McCain for Senate ‘98
Millennium Challenge Corporation Board of Directors
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
The Nature Conservancy Chairman (-2006)
Volunteer PAC
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Bush Pioneer 2004

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