Gotta love creative accounting and reporting.
BJ Clinton had a magical mystery surplus that vanished after GW took office.
GW lost billions of dollars to Iraq, was bashed about it for years, and now the next Democrat’s administration FOUND it, all accounted for safe and sound!
If it has been accounted for, does that mean it has been used, or is still sitting, shrink wrapped, in some office in Baghdad? If it’s the latter, they obviously didn’t NEED it, so shouldn’t we demand that they give it back to us?
http://surveysez.com/joomla/index.php/us-population-growth.html
From Joseph Chamie, Research Director of Center for Migration Studies, as of 2006:
•The country’s population in 1776 was 2.5 million (2,527,450).
•The total number of births since 1776: 483.5 million (483,465,018)
•The total number of immigrants since 1776: 72.1 million (72,105,369).
•The total number of Americans deceased since 1776: 258.1 million (258,097,000).
•The total number of Americans who have ever lived: 558.1 million (558,097,837).
•About 54% of Americans who have ever lived were living in 2006 (2006 U.S. population of 300,000 divided by the number of Americans who have ever lived: 300,000/558,097,837 = 53.7%)
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300 million people - still governed by 535 members of Congress/Senate. That is why the existence of 50 States is so appropriate. The Federal Government should be responsible for those powers enumerated in the Constitution - no more - no less.
Eliminate all the Agencies that are the cause of our fiscal crises; Education, Energy, Environment, Wildlife, Homeland Security, Land (grab) Management, Drug and Health, et.al.
Only National Defense, Immigration, State Dept. and Interstate Highways should be under the Federal purview.
State Governors could mediate anything else at annual conventions.
That is 66 million 100 dollar bills (the largest denomination printed). Can you imaging the physical bulk of that much cash? Think truckload, shipping container full.
I don’t know that a half million dollars in 20’s would fit in a carry-on bag. I used to work where we kept it on pallets and moved it with a forklift, and the most we ever had on hand about 50 million.
Yep....honest....we found it....by the way....here’s my retirement papers...forward my last check to my private island.
Well, how about that?
The remarkable thing is not that it disappeared, but that it “returned” just as Bambi is dumping Iraq.
Think about it.
“New evidence shows most of that money, $6.6 billion, did not go astray in that chaotic period, but ended up where it was supposed to be, under the control of the Iraqi government..”
A distinction without a difference.