Here’s an email chain I got today that is good food for thought… 

The next time you hear a politician use the word “billion” in a casual manner, think about whether you want the politicians” spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

     A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
     B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
     C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
     D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
     E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let’s take a look at New Orleans It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division . . Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?

     A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.
     B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
     C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets 1,066,012.

Washington , D.C .. HELLO!!! … Are all your calculators broken??

And one bonus…

The Kern County, California, Sheriff’s Department
orders plain white patrol units and has the graphics applied locally.
In this case, what they ordered was not quite what they got.

This car was driven for 1 week before an officer noticed what the graphics company employee
did on the passenger side of the car.  The employee did this on his last day working for the
graphics company before he retired.