I Will Take Cash
Well, we the public (because we voted these people into office) have agreed to raise the national debt to (Dr.Evil grin with the finger on the edge of the mouth) nine trillion dollars with no intention of paying it back.
How much is this really? I love numbers so here we go.
Nine trillion dollar looks like this: $9,000,000,000,000.00
Just to give you a landmark, Wal-Mart in 2004 had a revenue of $287,989,000,000.00 or close to 288 billion.
Now let's assume you live to be 100 years old. You can pay for a lot of healthcare with 9 trillion bucks. 100 years equals 36,525 days, or 876,600 hours, or 52,596,000 minutes or 3,155,760,000 seconds in your entire 100 years of living.
So if you wanted to SPEND the 9 trillion dollars in your lifetime, you would have to spend $2,851.92 plus per second since your birth to your 100th birthday (this doesn't count the extra second we get every 18 months or so).
Now if you wanted to MAKE the money on a regular work week assuming you are going to start working on your 16th birthday, work 40 hour weeks and have vacations, sicknesses and retire at 70 (after all we can't be bored), you would make an hourly wage of $83,333,333.33.
How about splitting the money up...I can share. If every man, woman, and child in the U.S. was given an equal share: 298,320,780 people would receive $30,168.86. I will take mine in cash please.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). My household has agreed to increase our debt to (again a Dr.Evil grin with the finger on the edge of the mouth) only ONE billion dollars with no intention of ever paying it back. Yes, yes, my new master plan is to use my "laser beam" to heat up the "magma" and create new greenbacks...err green and yellow backs that always look dirty.
Who is with me on this?
Did you know...
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
How much is this really? I love numbers so here we go.
Nine trillion dollar looks like this: $9,000,000,000,000.00
Just to give you a landmark, Wal-Mart in 2004 had a revenue of $287,989,000,000.00 or close to 288 billion.
Now let's assume you live to be 100 years old. You can pay for a lot of healthcare with 9 trillion bucks. 100 years equals 36,525 days, or 876,600 hours, or 52,596,000 minutes or 3,155,760,000 seconds in your entire 100 years of living.
So if you wanted to SPEND the 9 trillion dollars in your lifetime, you would have to spend $2,851.92 plus per second since your birth to your 100th birthday (this doesn't count the extra second we get every 18 months or so).
Now if you wanted to MAKE the money on a regular work week assuming you are going to start working on your 16th birthday, work 40 hour weeks and have vacations, sicknesses and retire at 70 (after all we can't be bored), you would make an hourly wage of $83,333,333.33.
How about splitting the money up...I can share. If every man, woman, and child in the U.S. was given an equal share: 298,320,780 people would receive $30,168.86. I will take mine in cash please.
This brings me to my point (as I almost always have one). My household has agreed to increase our debt to (again a Dr.Evil grin with the finger on the edge of the mouth) only ONE billion dollars with no intention of ever paying it back. Yes, yes, my new master plan is to use my "laser beam" to heat up the "magma" and create new greenbacks...err green and yellow backs that always look dirty.
Who is with me on this?
Did you know...
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Comments
I came randomly by your blog and I quite like it. I was wondering if it is ok if I make a link to it from my blog so I can pop back again at some point?
The story you mentioned about beer coming out of taps - made me smile too and wishing I was back in Norway for just those hours.
first time visit to ur blog. Interesting writeups with surprising trivia in the end.
Nike has no choice but to spend so much to have Michael Jordan as its brand ambassador.