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To: Brumar89 who wrote (297639)	3/22/2009 4:24:48 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794015

Happy to read that I am not the only person that thinks Obama resembles a dictator. From your story: There were dark mutterings that by commandeering evening programming only a few days after he appeared on Jay Leno’s popular late-night chat show, Obama was “just like Fidel Castro [of Cuba] and Hugo Chavez [of Venezuela] - always on camera, always giving speeches and lecturing”.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (297639)	3/22/2009 4:26:41 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794015

Re Billions and Trillions: A clip from Sweetness and Light: By the way, just as a point of comparison, our universe is currently estimated to only be 13 billion years old. According to my calculations 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) divided by 13 billion (13,000,000,000) is 76.9. So if you spent one dollar a year since literally the beginning of time, you would have to do it 77 times to reach 1 trillion dollars. And that is just the price tag for this latest proposed government latest binge