Thank You !!!
And a million is a thousand thousand !!!
We tend to kick around these numbers as if they're mere pocket change, but in reality most of us will only realize one million within our entire working career, and not as an accumulation of wealth but as an aggregate total of earnings.
One Billion is a massively huge number for most of us ... that the number is kicked around so flippantly just boggles the mind.
Some people think of a billion as two million. The prefix “bi” usually means two. We should say “a thousand million” more often.
CIRCA 2013--Guatemalan President stole foreign aid millions for his personal use;
thieving Guatemalan was elected to "redistribute" the dirt-poor nation's wealth.
Alfonso Portillo---ex-president of Central America's Guatemala--- faced charges in New York that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to (ahem) redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.
Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.
Portillo colluded w/ corrupt C/A insiders---he personally endorsed three $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by a close associate and political supporter.
The embezzled foreign aid money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.
<><> Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...
<><> plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator...
<><> through overdrafts financed by public reserves the pilfered foreign aid money paid for expensive watches and cars, for Portillo and his associates. (NY POST excerpt 5/28/13)
SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/
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Congress needs to curtail funding the heinous Mexican Merida Initiative---Mexico collects hundreds of millions of
US tax dollars for humanitarian aid and to fiance the "drug problem" they bring to our shores.......a problem they created.
The numbers are shocking. Between 2007 and 2016, the Norwegian government transferred no less than 640 million kroner in taxpayer money to the Clinton Foundation. Given the average exchange rate during that period, that sum would’ve been roughly equivalent to $100 million. This means that each and every Norwegian citizen, without being asked, put about $20 into the pockets of the Clintons' crooked enterprise.
AND GET THIS: The official reason for the massive payout was that the Norwegian government wanted to (cough) help mothers and children in Africa. But in 2016, Norway’s newspaper, Aftenposten, reported that Stephen Gillers, an NYU ethics expert, said that the real motive (gasp) was to buy influence for Norway in the corridors of American power. (Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I finished high school in ‘62 and I believe that the projected LIFETIME earnings for a high school graduate at that time who did not go on to college were $180,000. Four hundred dollars a month would support a family reasonably well in my area back then, many lived on much less than that. To haul one hundred dollars in groceries you needed a pickup truck. I am 75 now with diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis and other problems, in fact I am on VA disability and listed as a terminal patient and I can carry one hundred dollars worth of groceries from the car to the house in one trip by myself. If you are talking about beefsteak I can carry a hundred dollars worth supported by my pinkie finger. The dollar has been destroyed in my lifetime and it only gets worse. What my father earned in his entire working lifetime is not even one good year now.