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ulTRAX

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Fri Sep-17-04 01:57 PM
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CALLING ALL GRAPHIC ARTISTS!!!!

Edited on Fri Sep-17-04 02:02 PM by ulTRAX

I've seen some great graphics posted here for guerilla campaigning. I want to suggest another. If someone can do some hi-res graphics, they could distributed on the web and printed up anywhere... preferably in GOP strongholds. Maybe they can be handed out to crowds going to Bush rallies! LOL

Imagine finding a folded $50 laying around... the urge to pick it up is undeniable. But the $50 is only half printed. On the other side of the fold, a message:

"Sorry, you thought it was real but it's as phony as the Bush Tax Cuts."

ON THE BACKSIDE: "The national debt is 7.354 Trillion. As long as we're in debt, ALL of Bush's tax cuts are money he's stealing from our children. That's now $100,000 for a family of four. We can not even fund our own defense department without borrowing money from nations like China. Stop the insanity. Register now. Vote in November."

Add some graphics to make these abstract budget numbers concrete. For example Bush's 600 Billion estimated 04 deficit would cover a baseball diamond (90x90) to a height of 3240 FEET in tightly packed $1 bills.) There can also be a comparative graphic of the Clinton 87 Surplus and Bush's total debt. Figures below.

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Using a micrometer I found a dollar bill is between .0044" and .0050" thick. The paper is on the thin side but the areas that are pressed are thicker. I used the average of .0047.

A dollar bill is 6.125" x 2.625" x .0047"

$1.00 bill = .0755671 cubic inches

$22867.09 in a cubic foot... at least mathematically.

1 Billion....... 1000000000 / 22867.09 = 43730.968 cubic feet (that's way up)

600 Billion (OMB estimate for FY on-budget deficit) = 26,238,580.8 cubic feet

This would cover a baseball diamond (90x90) to a height of 3239.33'

600 Billion would cover a basketball court 94x50' to a height of 5582.67'

600 Billion would an entire NCAA football field (including end zones and sidelines... 160x360') to a height of 455.53'

As for the BUSH DEBT of 1626 Billion debt = 7,1102,310 cubic feet.

The Washington Monument is 55x55 at the base and 555' tall..... 1678875 cubic feet (actually much less since according to http://www.nps.gov/nama/mortar/mortar.htm the monument is only 34' thick at the top.)

Roughly 1637 Billion = 42.64 Washington Monuments (if the actual volume of the monument were calculated it might be closer to 50.)

The national debt of $7,354 Billion would equal 5.4 World Trade Towers in volume.
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DEFICIT NUMBERS: Remember that it's the ON-budget revenue deficit that's the true indicator of the nation's fiscal health. The unified budget borrows off-budget surpluses to cover on-budget revenue shortfalls. In FY00 Clinton had a 87 Billion ON-budge surplus.

CBO ESTIMATES: download "SEPTEMBER 2004 The Budget
and Economic Outlook: An Update" at www.cbo.gov

Scroll down to Table 1.2 CBO’s Baseline Budget Projections

Unified Deficit = 422 BILLION (number reported in news this month)
Off-budget surplus = +153 BILLION
On-budget deficit = -574 BILLION

OMB ESTIMATES: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/05msr.pdf
This estimate is from 7-30-04 and provides the White House's 455 Billion deficit figure reported in the news last August. You'll have to scroll down to Table 14. BUDGET SUMMARY BY CATEGORY where you'll see the real off-budget deficit is 600 BILLION.... with 155 Billion in off-budget surpluses being borrowed.
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BUSH DEBT: go to http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~www/opdpen.cgi
$7,353,679,708,420 - $5,727,776,738,304 = $1626 BILLION