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What the?
Date Added: January 13th, 2008
Hurricane Katrina’s victims have put a price tag on their suffering and it’s…drum roll please…a staggering amount. Over 3 quadrillion dollars. This dollar figure is sought from some 489,000 claims filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls after the Aug 29th, 2005 hurricane. (facts pulled from the Kalamazoo gazette). Let’s see, that means each of those claims would receive over a billion dollars each. Wow! Has anyone other than a mathematician even heard of a number that big? In case your interested, a quadrillion would be 1 followed by 15 zero’s. If the object is to punish the government for not preforming up to some imagined standard that we’ve yet as a society properly defined, then why stop there? Have we all forgotten the millions of American dollars shipped over to Iraq on pallets that disappeared? Or what about our crumbling infrastructure? How many pot holes have you seen lately? I know I could sure use a million or two. How about you?