Posted on 02/04/2009 1:41:04 PM PST by Between the Lines
Twice today, CNN has done short segments on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's declaration that
To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, "if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion."
Both times they said the claim checked out, the second time with a famous mathmetician (although I think they just needed a calculator).
Christ's birth in year zero, times 365, times 2009, gets you 733,285,000,000, or a bit over $733 billion. (Yes, I'm leaving out leap years.) You're not even three quarters of the way there. (Politifact calculates from 4 B.C.)
Yes, the stimulus is less than a trillion — $819 billion in the version passed by a House. But that's still a bigger total than a million a day since the first Christmas.
That's a soundbite that is going to resonate.
“Man can not live on bread alone....”
I don’t think Jesus would approve of this “payoff plan” anyway!
That’s 5.5 billion a day since the Annunciation and Coronation of The One (piss be upon him).
And back then a million was worth something.
This is a really good point. The conservatives need to run with this.
At that rate (of $1 million a day), we still would not have spent $819 billion until June of 2238.
This should have been in breaking news.
Adding a million dollars a day for each additional day during a leap hear would only add another $502,250,000 to the total.
Actually I think it would be more honest and above board, if we knew how much it was per day since Mohammad’s birth.
Yeah, that launch will be cool to watch.
Don’t forget to subtract the 10 million for the 10 days that were omitted in the conversion of the calendar from Julian to Gregorian. But then, Christ may have been born a few years before zero, too, Ah, call it even.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
Gregory dropped 10 days to bring the calendar back into synchronization with the seasons.... Accordingly, when the new calendar was put in use, the error accumulated in the 13 centuries since the Council of Nicaea was corrected by a deletion of ten days. The last day of the Julian calendar was Thursday, 4 October 1582 and this was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected).
Yep. 2245.
Where'd the 250,000 come from?
2009 divided by 4 = 502.25 X $1,000,000
Most democrats can not understand what is happening. We are being robbed. This is not a stimulus bill, it is a payoff of o’s buddies that helped him get elected. Give o some credit, if he can get this bill passed he will be the greatest thief in the history of mankind. This bill will not solve any of the economic problems of today. O will be back later to say that it was not enough money to fix the economy. I bet that a lot of this money will wind up in the politicians Swiss bank accounts. Also I am sure that none of that money will be reported as taxable income.
Most democrats can not understand what is happening. We are being robbed. This is not a stimulus bill, it is a payoff of o’s buddies that helped him get elected. Give o some credit, if he can get this bill passed he will be the greatest thief in the history of mankind. This bill will not solve any of the economic problems of today. O will be back later to say that it was not enough money to fix the economy. I bet that a lot of this money will wind up in the politicians Swiss bank accounts. Also I am sure that none of that money will be reported as taxable income.
Sorry for the double post.
It’s a math thingy.... :)
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