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"It makes us all look like jackasses. Go study that. It will show why we're $14 trillion in debt."
-- Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to FOX News on a report due out today from the GAO, Government Accountability Office [HERE]
The Article states: Bloat is a good reason for Budget Cuts --
" ... The central problem seems to be uncoordinated efforts by agencies with overlapping mandates.OVERLAP -- great descriptive word ... a rock and roll word ... Listen up: there are overlapping agencies in our mega mammoth Gub'mint.
Consider economic development. There are 72 federal programs working on entrepreneurship and small business incubation, 19 devoted to expanding tourism and 26 dedicated to expanding telecommunications efforts. (ibid.) ... "
"Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the Senate’s most ardent foe of such waste, will be pounding home the message today. (Stirewalt, Chris. March 01, 2011. Book of Bloat Bolsters GOP Calls for Cuts. Read more: HERE)"
" ... 14 TR, TR, TR, TRI-LLLLLL-ION -- We are ate up with overlapping dumb asses: ... "
- The age of the universe is only14,000,000,000 years
- Using the physics we know today, we can calculate what happened 0.000, 000, 000, 000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 001 seconds after the 'big-bang'.
- There are number of atoms in a metre3 is approximately, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
- One mole of atoms contains 624, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000 ,000.
- An atomic nucleus is approximately 0.000,000,000,000,01 metres.
- Your voice is amplified 1,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 times by the valves when making a long distance phone call from California to New-York in 1950s.
- The redshift on a faint high-redshift quasi-stellar object is measured as 10 billion light-years. In meters this is 9,470,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metres.
- Google is one of the most popular search engines, but a Googol is also the name given to the number: 10,000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000.
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The long evening dress next day we pulled up the carpet in each hallway on two sides of the atrium, hoping to find more hardwood. Unfortunately, we found an awful, orange-colored linoleum...which didn't make sense because it looked terrible next to the beautiful hardwood.
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