Daily show for Dec 16 - are you disgusted?

[Kasz216]

leatherhat said:

Kasz216 said:

leatherhat said:

Slimebeast said:

Wow apparently the bill that the Republicans voted against would have cost $7.1 billion!

$7 billion just to cover the medical expenses for supposed health problems of emergency workers due to 9/11.

LOL!

Ridiculous. If it was $7 million it would have been reasonable, or even $70 million. But $7,000 million for a few rescue workers' supposed health problems. USA is crazy.

It was going to be paid for by closing a corporate tax loophole. So it wouldn't have cost tax payers anything.

Or they could just close the loophole and just lower peoples taxes by 7 billion.  Or just paid for stuff that's already not being paid for.

There is no way it should cost 7 billion to treat them.

Assuming there were 1 million rescue workers... which, there was nowhere near that many... that's 700 Million a piece.

What?

It's like the Healthcare Health Exchange that's going to cost us billions of dollars... when it's going to be a website like Orbitz... where the fuck does all this money go?  I'm guessing Orbitz doesn't spend BILLIONS on their website.

You might want to check your math on that one. Theres only a thousand million in a billion

My bad on that one.  Still 70 million is still ridiculious.... I mean 7 million a piece would still be VERY high, and there weren't nearly that many workers.

The amount of people with problems is listed in the "thousands".

As in under 10 thousand.