Daily show for Dec 16 - are you disgusted?

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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.

Edit: Damnit my maths is off too

 

700,000,000 * 1000,000 = 700,000,000,000,000 = 700,000 Billion amiright? Why is this so hard, it's just zeroes!

7000,000,000/1000,000 = 7000 per person? Not in the millions.

Of course in reality there were only 30,000 people so the numbers are different.