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   From: ljdramone@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:27:10 -0400, Mike Smith  wrote:   
   >   
   > The war on terror is hardly a "financial quagmire" with our government   
   > spending a billion dollars every 8 minutes to run all of it's social   
   > programs.   
      
   Oh really now.  Let's see... 365 x 24 x 60 is 525,600 minutes   
   in a year, so there are 525,600 / 8 eight-minute periods per   
   year, or 65,700.   
      
   Damn, man.  I had *no idea* the Federal budget for entitlements   
   was 65.7 trillion dollars per year.   
      
   Here I was thinking the entire Federal budget for 2006 (not   
   counting off-budget "emergency" supplemental appropriations   
   for the War on Terror) was a mere 2.8 trillion.  More liberal   
   lies from the MSM, I guess.   
      
   > Without defense from enemies, the various safety hammocks are   
   > irrelevant.  Think of the war on terror the ultimate safety net which   
   > allows all the others to continue to survive.   
      
   If I did math the way you did, I could say the War on Terror   
   is costing us umptyteen kajillion skadillion dollars a year.   
      
   Can we really afford to keep paying hoobadooba million billion   
   squintillion dollars a year forever to keep a few towelheads   
   from coming here so we don't have to fight them there, or   
   whatever?  Maybe we should just say "fuck it" at some point   
   and convert to Islam.   
      
   I dunno, that whole virgins in paradise deal is starting to sound   
   pretty sweet.   
      
      
   ljd   
      
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