December 12, 2004

A Little Perspective on $191 billion for Bush - One dollar is roughly 6 inches long, and 2.5 inches wide. It's about as thick as a regular piece of paper. Now imagine a stack of dollars 500 feet long, 100 feet tall, and 125 feet wide.
posted by Nostrildamus 20 years ago
  • Shhh! I can't be distracted with this crap while I play through all 10^89 possible games of chess.
  • What if, instead of dollar bills, it was king sized chocolate bars that cost a dollar. How much chocolate would that be?
  • Proably not enough to fill a really hungry bear when he comes blinking from his cave in spring to find no breakfast there!
  • So that's what inflation looks like. If the government is going to treat money as paper so will others.
  • Bees, and bear would be a metaphor for ... ? We are obviously breakfast. Bush is an asshole. Wait, have I said that before?
  • Not since Saturday night.
  • Mmmmm...chocolate. Except that in Connecticut, king size chocolate bars cost $2. (I like the Hershey's 100g pure milk chocolate, which I savour over a couple of weeks.)
  • Q. How does dubya count? A. One, two, another, another, another...
  • Now imagine a stack of dollars 500 feet long, 100 feet tall, and 125 feet wide. Now imagine it in your basement!