Monday, June 01, 2009

Bureaucracy At Its Best

Every man and woman in this country needs to hear this little exchange. It speaks for itself.




Unbelievable.

Oh, and when Alan Grayson refers to "what is now a two trillion dollar portfolio" - how much is that?

Two billion General Grants ($1,000 apiece); or twenty billion Ben Franklins ($100 apiece).

What could you do with it?

Well - you could spend $1,000 every second for 64 years.

Or, you could make a stack of one-thousand-dollar bills 142 miles high - enough to threaten the International Space Station.

You could lay those Grants end to end around the earth's equator - eight times. If you used Franklins you could do it eighty times.

If you actually used dollar bills you could make a continuous ribbon 189,393,939.4 miles long. A fighter jet flying at the speed of sound would take over twenty-nine years to unroll it.

This didn't come from a chain email, friends. I did the math myself and if anyone doesn't believe it I'll post all the calculations.

When did America go insane?