Pelosi Says The GOP is Superfluous. She’ll Pass the Budget As-Is.
Still think the Democrats are interested in bipartisanship? Let Nancy Pelosi educate you.
As Senate Democrats continued to wrangle over their version of the budget, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted swift passage in her chamber — with or without GOP support.
“I hope the bill will pass with bipartisan support,” said Pelosi, who has often preached against banking on Republican support in the lower chamber. “But the bill will pass.”
Nah, she’s not partisan at all.
When she says “the bill”, by the way, she means the $3.6 billion trillion porkapalooza with everything the President wants still in it, including unprecedented deficits, the beginning of a pre-failed nationalized health care scheme, massive tax increases, cap and trade, and plenty of stuff to help buy votes for Democratic members of Congress like this pork park that not even the National Park Service wanted.
Don’t like it? Well, there’s only one way to change it and that’s to get on the horn to your legislators now and demand that they reject the President’s budget completely.
Then, do everything you can to take power away from the Dumbest Speaker of the House in American History.
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Category: Health Care Craziness, Our New Democratic Overlords, Progressives, The Economy and Your Money, The Rise of the Nanny State
Trillion. 3.6 trillion. Not billion, trillion. Might as well start calling it a "squintoodle" because that is just as easily comprehended as a trillion.
Geez. You're right. Consider that corrected. Don't know how I goofed on that number.
Our new project is to find out what comes after "trillion". I think it's quadrillion, but I'm only making an educated guess.
One thousand trillion is indeed a quadrillion. But in deference to international readers, English-speaking countries don't all count above millions the same way. The American trillion is the same as the British billion: One million million, or 1,000,000,000,000.
>>The American trillion is the same as the British billion: One million million, or 1,000,000,000,000.>>
Really. That's definitely odd. So…what would an Brit call an American billion? You'd think at least our number terminology would be the same…
Years ago, I had a discussion with a German woman about a "pfund". She said it was 500 grams, I said it was 454 grams. After going through mental contortions about how a pound could weigh more in Germany than it did in the US, the obvious answer struck me – we translated "pound" as "pfund", but a pound is a pound and a pfund is a pfund. They may be linguistically the same but the numbers just simply don't equate. That kind of misunderstanding in the basics of information gathering can lead to massive problems!!
I don't know if he still does it, but G. Gordon Liddy, on his radio show, would replace "billion" in the news stories he read with "thousand million" in deference to international listeners.
Not just in deference to them, but so that the average Joe (or Josephine) could get part of his/her brain around the size of the number!
The British equivalent of the American billion (one thousand million or 1,000,000,000) is a milliard. Though I'm not sure the term is still in common use.
I like the idea of bringing the milliard back into common use. It's a perfectly cromulent word!