Posted on 09/23/2008 4:48:24 AM PDT by refermech
Cool! whats a windows calculator? LOL!!
These numbers are so large I can hardly imagine them. I think we are in deep sh!t already. Hope I don’t have to use my firearms to protect the family. But if that is what it takes....
I think 700b / 450m = $1555.56
Oops, my population figure was wrong.
You can lable this anything you want, bailout etc., it still boils down to a redistribution of wealth!
Good for you. I’m in the same boat. I hate owing anybody anything. I’m worried about my savings though. If there is a run on the banks I don’t know what would happen. Chaos for sure. Gov would close the banks. Then what? At least I’ve got lots of Ammo and Guns!!
So I have to pay $11,666.67 to get $2333.33 back. Why don’t I just keep my money I did not cause the problem to start with.
Oh, you silly, silly thing. Don't you know it's not about just the taxpayers? The illegals must have their share as well. Make that a super duper double triple portion of taxpayers' shares for illegals because they're doing jobs those mean old taxpayers won't.
Well, there are at least two of us in this boat.....but the overwhelming majority of folks I know would/will be out on the street if they miss 3 paychecks. These same people called me "lucky" when I paid off my house and farm in 2001 after 15 years of working 100 hour weeks and 280 days a year traveling in pursuit of my profession. Luck had nothing to do with it. It's called living within your means. A lot of these same folks are about to get a big dose of that "living within your means" stuff, I guarantee.....
Amen, amen.
I think its time for the Government to start selling much of its Government-owned Land to help pay off this new debt.
Based on data provided by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the Republican Study Conference recently issued a report on the amount of land and buildings owned by the federal government. It revealed that “almost three-in-ten acres in the United States are owned by the federal government,” with the government sometimes owning more than half of the land in some states. In California, nearly half of land area is owned by the federal government.
Other key findings of the report show, as of September 30, 2003, 29.6% of all land in the U.S. was owned by the federal government, with total acreage of 671,759,297.7. Some of the states with the largest percentage of federal land ownership were:
1.) Nevada: 91.9% 5.) Wyoming: 50.6% 9.) Colorado: 34.9%
2.) Alaska: 66.7% 6.) Arizona: 50.2% 10.) New Mexico: 34.1%
3.) Utah: 66.5% 7.) Oregon: 49.7% 11.) Montana: 31.3%
4.) Idaho: 66.4% 8.) California: 46.9% 12.) Washington: 31.0%
The District of Columbia has only 26.3% of its land owned by the federal government although it was established as the federal city.
The report also detailed the location of federal land by region: West: 55.5%; Alaska and Hawaii: 36.4%; North Central: 2.9%; South Central: 2.9%; South Atlantic and DC: 2.2%; and Northeast: 0.2%. The RSC study also points out that only 2.4% of federal land is used for military purposes.
For buildings owned by the federal government, as of September 30, 2003 the RSC reported:
-Buildings owned in U.S. by the federal government - 432,791
-Number of square feet of office space within owned buildings - 3.03 billion
-Number of buildings leased by the federal government - 42,246
-Number of square feet of office space in leased buildings - 333.8 million
The report found that about one-fifth of the buildings owned and leased by the government are used for housing.
$2,333.33 if the population is 300,000,000
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I did without a lot of stuff through the years, living off things others throw away, going to the second hand store. I still lived high on the hog in my opinion and have a fair amount saved for a rainy day(is it raining now?) I can fix anything(almost) so I hope to get my family through this. No luck involved. Just lived within my means just like you said.
To say nothing of the trashing of the Constitution and making Paulson and his ilk, Kings.
$2,000 for every man, woman and child in this country. Ouch.
My mother was a teenager during the Depression. My father was a young adult. I grew up with all their stories and habits. I carry those habits with me to this very day. I still grow a big garden every year and preserve a lot of the food we eat. For the past several years I've been renewing an orchard area on the farm I bought back in 2001, planting fruit trees and grape vines. I've been building a greenhouse for the past three weeks or so. Next on the list is a chicken coop for a few yardbirds for eggs, then finish some fencing for a few cows.
If nothing else, when push comes to shove, we'll eat good....
Precisely!
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