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Title: Porkulus in Perspective
Post by: AUTailgatingRules on February 20, 2009, 12:50:51 PM

The amount of money in this bill just blows the mind

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19055.html (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19055.html)

Title: Re: Porkulus in Perspective
Post by: AUTiger1 on February 20, 2009, 02:48:20 PM

This is what I can seem to get over:

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“A million dollars a day for more than 2,000 years. You would still have spent less money than Congress just did.”

That is a hell of a lot of money.

Title: Re: Porkulus in Perspective
Post by: Tarheel on February 22, 2009, 04:11:49 PM

This ad is a very clever way to really put the kind of spending this Congress is doing into perspective.  I think that generally such large amount of money are too unbelievable for folk to understand.