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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (732296)3/15/2006 4:25:07 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Holy Moley! A few more like that and we can go to the moon by just climbing up the stack! Who was it that started dipping into the trust funds now?

Value of a thousand dollar bill $1,000
Thickness of a thousand dollar bill (guesstimated) 0.003 inch
Number of thousand dollar bills in an inch high stack 333.3
Number of thousand dollar bills in a foot 4000
Value of a foot of thousand dollar bills $4,000,000.00 1000000000
Height of a billion dollar stack of thousand dollar bills 250 feet
Height of a trillion dollar stack of thousand dollar bills 47.3 miles
Current 98 trillion dollars
Height unfunded obligations for SS, Medicade and Medicare in a stack of thousand dollar bills 4640.2 miles



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (732296)3/16/2006 6:21:24 AM
From: JDN  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 769670
 
Kenneth, you like to publish negative data, now tell us WHAT WOULD YOU DO to fix the problem? jdn