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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UPS Lifer" data-source="post: 1037876" data-attributes="member: 9789">This is about how casual our politicians spend our money. It is something to remember the next time you hear one of them throwing around numbers. I got this email and thought about a Congresswoman we FIRED two years ago. I live in the Democratic 1st District of Arizona.  Ann Kirkpatrick was our representative. She walked out of a town meeting without saying a word back in 2010 when 2/3 of the people were upset  about Obamacare.  To show you how weak she was, in a Democrat controlled Congress, she failed to get a NON PARTISAN designation of National Scenic Area passed for the Sedona AZ area!!! Two days before she left office, she hired her campaign staff to her Congressional Staff and paid them over $100,000! It is an outrage that this person is running again. I am sure that you have seen this example before but it is tied to another politician’s request for $250 billion to rebuild New Orleans. The example below shows how outrageous the request is and why we have the deficit and debt we do. The next time you hear a politician use theWord 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, But one advertising agency did a good job of Putting that figure into some perspective in One of its releases. A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.While this thought is still fresh in our brain... let's take a look at New Orleans ... It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division. Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) was asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS To rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number... What does it mean? A. Well .. If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman and child) You each get $516,528 B. Or... If you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787 C. Or... If you are a family of four... Your family gets $2,066,012 Washington , D.C. ..HELLO! Are all the calculators broken?? Building Permit Tax CDL License Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax (Fed) Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Luxury Tax Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service charge Taxes Social Security Tax Road Usage Tax (Truckers) Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone Federal Excise Tax Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax Telephone Usage ChargeTax Utility Tax Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax (And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes) STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago... And our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt... We had the largest middle class in the world... And Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What happened? Can you spell 'politicians'! </blockquote>

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