Okay, the president wants 87 billion smackers for "rehab" treatment on Iraq. I must give him credit for asking the entire world to chip in a little to help defray the cost.
How many 20's s that? You know what I mean. How many 20-dollar bills are there in 87 billion. Let's see ... 87,000,000,000 divided by 20 would be 4,350,000,000. Four billion three hundred and fifty million faces of Andrew Jackson. That's a lot of 20's.
"What the hell is Billy talking about?"
I'm rambling. The federal government is about to spend something like $34,000,000 to advertise that new 20-dollar bills are being put into circulation on October 9th -- advertising so that we all will feel a bit more comfortable with the blue and orange aura around Old Hickory's head. Well, they call the color "peach," but the color scheme is not lost on me, U of T rooters.
I think that in order to make us all comfortable with the new 20's, on October 9, every man, woman, and child should receive 10 new 20-dollar bills. That would be about 60 billion dollars. Then use the other 27 billion, 34 million dollars, to get the troops back home that day. That would make October 9 a good day, I think.
Posted by Bill at September 23, 2003 10:56 PMof star stuff?
Posted by: Matt at September 23, 2003 11:00 PMI struggle to comprehend why the federal government would want to spend so much on advertising when there are more worthy causes where that amount of money would make a huge difference.
Posted by: Michelle at September 24, 2003 06:26 AM