Obama Budget Factoids. $3.8 biillion = $380 billion per pound = $1.5 billion per page.

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We can’t afford this!

The Obama 2011 budget proposal was released to the press at 9AM today and to the public at 10AM Available at GPO website at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action

Summary:
-2450 pages including appendices.
-weighs 10 pounds for all four books
-2011 deficit is $1.6 trillion, biggest in history
-That’s $160 billion/pound, or $10 billion/ounce.
-That’s $653 million/page.

Spending $3.8 billion.
-That’s $380 billion/pound; or $32 billion/ounce.
-That’s $1.5 billion/page.

JR

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