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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (4122)6/4/2004 7:13:14 PM
From: Stephen O  Read Replies (1) of 37549
 
A billion here, a billion there." Just how much IS a
billion dollars?

It's one thousand million - a number that is beyond
comprehension. - if you have yet to celebrate your
32nd birthday, you have not lived one billion seconds

- one billion minutes takes us back to the time of
Christ - if one were to make a stack money at the base
of the CN Tower, you would hit a billion dollars at
the observation deck using one thousand dollar
bills!!!

- a billion dollars spent at Canadian Tire would
purchase 21 million trigger locks, 21 million long-gun
carrying cases and 7 million lockable gun cabinets

- with a billion dollars, a reward of 1.8 million
could have been offered toward solving each and every
murder committed in Canada in 2002

- a billion dollars would cover the cost of running
every single courtroom in Canada for a year, and
still leave enough money to purchase 20 brand new MRI
machines for some lucky hospitals

- if you made a one-year old child sit on the bathroom
floor and drop loonies into the toilet at the rate of
one every two seconds, 24 hours a day, he would be
finished at age 65

The Liberal government has spent two (not one, but
two) billion on the gun registry - so far.

They have also misplaced a billion in failing to track
land claim settlements through Indian Affairs and
another billion in the HRDC scandal (remember that
one?).

So who was Finance Minister through all of this? The
man who is now our Prime Minister. Could you vote for
this crook or his cronies who seem to place themselves
above the law?
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