Friday, January 22, 2010
Do you realise how much a billion is??see comments
Borrowing hits record £15.7 billion
The UK's creaking public finances took another hit in December as public borrowing soared to £15.7 billion, official figures have shown.
Posted by waitingtobuy @ 03:33 PM (1652 views)
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waitingtobuy says:
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the
Word ‘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 it’s 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 Pounds ago was only
13 hours and 12 minutes,
At the rate our government
Is spending it.
Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Income Tax
Unemployment Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Petrol/Diesel Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
(tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Local Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago…
And our nation was one of 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!’
I hope this goes around the
UK
At least 100 times
What the hell happened?????
hpwatcher says:
As shocking as the figures are, what I find even more shocking is how oblivious Gordon Brown seems to be of the mess he has made.
Like the typical spoilt child, he prefers to see the toy broken than given to anyone else.
A vandal of the very highest degree, the true scale of the mess made by Gordon Brown, will only become apparent after the GE.
jack c says:
@waitingtobuy – oddly enough I posted this earlier (Friday, January 22, 2010 03:29PM) in the comments section of techie’s Daneric post. I believe this has come from/is aimed at the US but in any event it still puts into perspective the knife edge position the UK finds itself in under Mr Browns stewardship as both Chancellor and PM.
Adskirockski says:
Hmmm googling “Fishing License Tax” seems to only bring up this list on other forums.
I think there are plenty of arguments to be made without regurgitating hyperbole of chain emails.
alan_540 says:
Brown’s not oblivious – he knows exactly what he’s doing. Roll on the May election.
jack c says:
alan_540 said…Brown’s not oblivious – he knows exactly what he’s doing. Roll on the May election. He’ll be stumped when we all vote him back in – that will teach him to take the electorate for granted
alan_540 says:
If the Brown one gets back in I will buy a hat, wear it, and then take it off and publicly eat it.
hpwatcher says:
If the Brown one gets back in I will buy a hat, wear it, and then take it off and publicly eat it.
I’ll be leaving the UK.
matt_the_hat says:
7. hpwatcher – if your allowed
smugdog says:
I take it that the general view on this site is that we should have left everything to fail,
found “ground zero” and started a fresh.
This may have rewarded the “clever” ones and may have provided rich pickings for these.
Or has the government been correct in their management; store up debt until better times
exist in order to pay it off, thus providing a safety net for many many families who might
otherwise have been yet more of a burden on this country.
I’m beginning to think that Gordon and Alistair may have got it just about spot on!
The next couple of months will be telling, but come the barmy nights of late summer, we may be
saluting these chaps as the saviours on high. And the “clever ones” being not so clever after all!
smugdog says:
And I doubt that those who stamp their feet, chuck thier dummies out and threaten to leave (and there are many), have no
balls to do so, far easier to pull the curtains and type of their frustrations into the night.
Get real and get on with it.
mr g says:
Smugdog @9
One big flaw to your theory:
Savers and those who have been prudent are being well and truly shaft*d in order to dig the profligate out of the brown stuff.
I think that I am correct in saying that savers outnumber borrowers several times over, therefore the majority are being robbed in order to support the minority. Where’s the justice in that? But then Liebor (the supposed party of equality) doesn’t give a sh*t about the prudent.
jack c says:
smugdog – a lot of people and businesses are packing up and leaving the UK – there are service providers who offer bespoke exit strategies one of which (purely as an example) is @ offshore-iom.com/index1.htm (currently no shortage of work for these boy’s)
smugdog says:
Savers who sold at the “so called” top, rubbing their mitts, waiting for Armageddon?
I have no sympathy what so ever. They gambled, they lost, move on.
smugdog says:
Jack C, look around your immediate circle of friends, family and colleagues. Who has left these shores for good?
Not many I bet. We read too much into the fantasy world of the fantastic few and extremely rich.
We live in real Britain, with real, helpless, pigeon holed British folk. Get used to it, it’s your life,
you’ve earned it and will continue to pay for it.
braindeed says:
2. hpwatcher said…
As shocking as the figures are, what I find even more shocking is how oblivious Gordon Brown seems to be of the mess he has made.
Like the typical spoilt child, he prefers to see the toy broken than given to anyone else.
A vandal of the very highest degree, the true scale of the mess made by Gordon Brown, will only become apparent after the GE.
All Broons fault,…..it’s not fair
Change the record.
hpwatcher says:
All Broons fault,…..it’s not fair
Change the record.
You are completely underestimating the talents of Gordon Brown.
But we don’t have to argue about it – as much as you’d like to – let’s just wait and see what happens after the election. When the real cost of nu labour becomes clear.
Crunchy says:
I think most know it was The Federal Reserve and The White House that got this crashball rolling. However, the weak and desperate for adulation Brown should have resisted. Why did he not? The same can be said of Blair and his follies.
Contrary to the above, I have never been a fan of Globalism, which is now being pushed as the magic solution with all it’s very questionable policies. Does it ever end, if so where? Feudalism? ………sorry!!
braindeed says:
You are completely underestimating the talents of Gordon Brown.
And you are completely underestimating the inevitability of the current crisis.
It was brought about by 30 years of kow-tow to the disciples of Laissez-faire, and Tory rule (instead of Labour) would have been no different.
We all know of the Conservative hatred of ‘Red Tape’……do you imagine for one moment they would have regulated the Casino of London any more tightly?
Now try and make a contribution that doesn’t depent on myopic and childishly partisan rant.
Crunchy says:
1. waitingtobuy said,
We had absolutely no national debt…
We had the largest middle class in the world…
And Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
Ask the Rothchilds who financed the Womens Lib movement for some of the answers. (not a lot of people know that)
Double Bubble, Tax and Trouble.
Crunchy says:
1. waitingtobuy ..Opps, It was the ‘Rockefeller Foundation’ not the Rothchilds that funded the Women’s Liberation Movement.
Easy mistake!
rumble says:
“thus providing a safety net for many many families who might otherwise have been yet more of a burden on this country”
— I’m not one for saving over-spent families – let them fail too. If the government stopped showing everyone that it’s willing to save the stupid, reckless and lazy, perhaps they would learn to take care.
“And I doubt that those who stamp their feet, chuck thier dummies out and threaten to leave (and there are many), have no
balls to do so, far easier to pull the curtains and type of their frustrations into the night.
Get real and get on with it.”
— Doubt not, been flip-flopping since April.
hpwatcher says:
And you are completely underestimating the inevitability of the current crisis.
No I’m not.
We all know of the Conservative hatred of ‘Red Tape’……do you imagine for one moment they would have regulated the Casino of London any more tightly?
So why did the most regulated industry in the world – Banking – fail so badly?
Now try and make a contribution that doesn’t depent on myopic and childishly partisan rant.
Why not? The perfect balance to your incomprehensible class war rubbish.
smugdog says:
Each stupid, reckless and lazy inbred has the same vote as the wise and wonderful,
and Gordon knows that.
I too couldn’t give a hoot Oh Rumble, but Gordon feels his luck is about to turn for the good.
What then?
devo says:
and still you guys think party politics matters
vacuouspolitician says:
lol “curtain twitchers” “rubbing their mitts waiting for Armageddon”. Think you may have many people on this site sussed. lol
Their is also a distinct intolerance of a broad range of people bordering on rudeness at times… a distinct whiff of elitism… mass schadenfreude and the feeling that people are so poisoned/consumed with hatred they take themselves far too seriously.
Well done.
braindeed says:
19. hpwatcher said…
.Now try and make a contribution that doesn’t depent on myopic and childishly partisan rant.
Why not? The perfect balance to your incomprehensible class war rubbish.
Where do you get the ‘class war’ stuff from?
Is the circus on close-season, Coco?
braindeed says:
21. devo said…
and still you guys think party politics matters
Not me ….I .was, in effect, just countering Coco’s sad attempt at party a political broadcast in the interest of balance,
Read my post again, in that light