Monday, November 30, 2009

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If I owed that much I think I would be bankrupt....Taken from backwoods home magazine
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Volume 11      Number 11

November, 2009
 


COMMENTARY

Here we are, smack in the middle of the holiday season. Many of us have spent lots of money or will soon spend lots of money on gifts for those we love. And when the season is over, many of us will shake our heads at how much money we spent.
But no matter how much we spend, it will pale in comparison to what our "leaders" in Washington spend every single day. So, thanks to an email we recently received, we thought we'd show you what the money they spend really looks like.


You've heard all the talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...A billion dollars...A hundred billion dollars...Eight hundred billion dollars...One TRILLION dollars...
What does that look like? The president and congress toss around these numbers like so many doggie treats,
Let's try to get a sense of what all that money looks like.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation.

A $100 bill

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000.

$10,000
Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for a week or two of shamefully decadent fun.
And for some, it approximates their annual income!


Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000).

A man standing next to one million dollars
You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it. Of course, with the cost of food these days, walking around with a grocery bag might get you mugged in some places.


While that measly $1 million looks a little unimpressive sitting on the floor next to that guy, $100 million is a little more respectable. Still, it fits neatly on a standard pallet.

A man standing next to one hundred million dollars


Here is $1 BILLION dollars...chump change to some lawmakers.
A man standing next to one billion dollars

Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars... the number about which we've been hearing so much lately from Washington..
What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
Ladies and gentlemen...$1 trillion dollars...

A man standing next to one trillion dollars

Notice those pallets are double stacked...and remember those are $100 bills.
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase trillion dollars... that's what they're talking about.
And finally, here is the approximate U.S. National Debt of 11 Trillion dollars in $100 dollar bills.

A man standing next to the national debt of eleven trillion dollars
We said "approximate" above because the actual debt is probably now over twelve trillion dollars. That works out to over $39,000 for every citizen - every man, woman, and child!
Those of you who are "expecting" or will be in the future, your child will be born owing the government over $39,000...plus interest.
If every one of the 307 million men, women, and children in the United States got together and decided to pay off that debt with individual 5%, 30-year "mortgages, each of us would have to pay $209.36 per month for a total of $75,369.60.
That means a family of four would have to pay $837.44 a month for a total of $301,478.40 -- over three hundred thousand dollars!!! And that's before living expenses like rent, housing, food, clothes, etc.
And for what?
So some bankers and automobile executives won't lose their jobs? So the government can take over banks and car companies and run them as horrendously as they do everything else?
And these people — our "representatives" — who have saddled us and our children with so much debt want to take over our health care and add trillions more to the debt? Are they insane?
At this rate, how high will the debt be when today's newborns become an adults at 18? How will they be able to live when so much of what they earn is taken in taxes to pay off debts they never agreed to?
Please, think about that, about what our "leaders" have done to us, to our economy, and to the freedoms that used to make America the greated nation on Earth. Think about the kind of life your children and grandchildren will have to endure.
Write to these people. Call their offices. Let them know what you think of what they are doing. And be sure to let them know that if they do not stop this madness, you'll be voting in the next election...for the other person.
Maybe that will get their attention.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Gobblins

I live in a rough area of town and the kids do as they please. There parents are probably working. Well the young kids as young as five maybe and as old as ten got into my yard and stole plants garden furniture and the like. They made the mistake of breaking a small sculpture and left it laying on the ground. I waited for three days for them to come back and they did. That's when I told them I locked up a gobbling in the statue and they let it out when they broke it. The only way to get the gobbling back into the statue was to bury the statue in the ground really deep. I then told one little girl to get out of the tree she had climbed which she did with out a word being said (to my surprise). The eldest girl picked up the statue and went to the others and said that we have to bury this. They all left with the statue with there heads held low. I was polite and convincing and said it all with conviction, no raised voices , I also said that I was disappointed with them as I thought they were nice girls. I went in side and my wife said what was I so happy about, and I told her, She said that I was cruel. I don't think so   :)  :)  :)

brians workshop


This is Brians workshop before the Junee fires. Every thing was lost.Don't know who the girl is but she was a student in a bodgering course that Brian was running the other person is your truly.

Friday, November 27, 2009

singing group


I was at the markets at Sanctuary Point and this group of singers were there and they were fantastic. There was some talent there that we will see in the future on TV and places like that.

chooks

We had two chooks and they produced an egg a day each. they were white one had a few brown feathers on the chest and its eggs were just off white the totally white chook had totally white eggs. Henny was the one with brown feathers and Penny was the other. The farmer next door had 18 chooks and his cattle dog killed the lot in one go. There was one left and she made her escape to our place and moved in she was our refugee chook. She was the darkest of the lot but white as well. We called her Jenny.  We had a little bantam chook that was given to my wife by her cousin and it came there as a chicken. It slept with the dog and thought it was a dog one morning the chicken turned into a rooster and let the dog know at five in the morning. Well the dog being a quite dog was woke up by the chicken and he jumped to his feet and as he was sleeping in the kitchen. He demolished the kitchen in the dark turned the table over and chairs were knocked flying by the rampaging dog who had just been woken by the rooster trying to crow.The roosters name was Nuggsy he would attack anything that came into the yard even people.When we turned the light on the dog stood there looking up and trying to say it wasn't me. His name was Cooper. Getting back to the story if you crush the white eggs and put the broken shells in the garden they keep the white butterflies away, the chook has to be totally white or it dosn't work. Everything gets a name the car is Julie the tree out the front is Willy I think its an english or girl thing.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

bayer aids video

I had to think hard about this and I think the greedy Bustards need to be exposed
Check out the two videos below



bayer aids video

I had to think hard about this and I think the greedy Bustards need to be exposed
Check out the two videos below