Posted on 03/21/2009 12:20:16 PM PDT by TWP guy
This started off as fun, but making a gif file over 10,000 pixels tall did not seem to be something Fireworks wanted to do. Still, that's what was required to illustrate how many times larger the cost of the climate plan, or Obama's underestimation of his own budget was, compared to the AIG bonuses. So, if as reported by ABC, the AIG bonuses were "staggering in size," then what adjective would they use to report Obama's budget?
Read on and see the infamous gif file (it's only 54k... just very tall)
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericansentinel.com ...
That is pretty dramatic.
Wow.
Wow. Thanks for the hard work. It’s a good graphic.
Yes. We didn’t start talking about a trillion here and a trillion there until just recently. It’s unimaginably big.
Just goes to show how much the press and the public lack perspective but the difference is that people can comprehend AIG bonuses. They have a harder time getting there mind around trillions of dollars. I think it is because there is not enough rage in any one person to equal what such excess warrants.
Sadly, I don’t think we’ll hear a word about the costs of the climate BS. Major players have a stake in trading hot air back and forth, and they’re not going to give up those profits.
At the bottom, you describe the green line as the $167 million of AIG bailout money. The $167 million is bonuses paid from bailout money, but the bailout monies are $170+ billion. Just a small observation there...
And heres a link to a site that’ll show what a trillion dollars looks like when stacked up in hundred dollar bills.
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
It’s utterly mind-boggling how clueless this administration is. I honestly believe that the numbers are too big to register in 0bama’s brain and he just sees them in the abstract, not as a reality.
LOL!! I'm picturing a "24" type motion picture in which terrorists kidnap a fictional Democrat President and some Democrat Congressmen and force them to do simple mathematics on live TV to their enormous embarrassment, record the results, then release them unharmed.
The AIG flap reminds me of the Scotsman who finds a fly in his soup. He picks it up, starts shaking it, and yells, “Spit it out! Spit it out!”
For suppose he has 250 ml of soup, representing 2.5e12 dollars, then 1 ml is 1e10 dollars, and 1.67e8 dollars is 0.0167 ml, which is maybe a little too much for one fly but is, as we say in the trade, “ballpark”.
Stalin and Hitler and Mao each killed many millions.
So using the rationale of so many conservatives defending the AIG payouts, if I kill just one person, that’s OK.
Guys - the budget and deficit are wrong, and the bonuses are wrong. Damn them all.
It’s amazing how much smoke screen that tiny green line produces.
That's why this chart is also a perfect example of the purpose and effect of the MSM.
That’s a BIG observation. The caption should be changed.
EXACTLY! Add in there, those that supposedly represent us in D.C. are wrong...
Pretty good graphic! Fix the spelling and punctuation near the bottom, and it will be 100%.
Thanks NewJerseyJoe. It’s weird typing in Fireworks and all of a sudden I had to go to work, and my grammatical errors were there on display all day D’OH! But I’m back home now and have fixed the graphic on the AS site, and I found one instance of using the word bailout and changed that to bonus. Mainly I wondered how it would look to compare the 2 figures in this way, and for fun just started pushing pixels. I don’t think it’s all that valid a comparison since the deficit applies to all Americans and the bonus figure to just one company, however, it’s worth it to remember that we have much bigger issues to consider than the AIG bonuses, and most media outlets are very thin with the details on the bonuses, and why they were paid. IMHO there has been an overreaction.
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