Ever heard of Stellar Wind? Supposedly it can record all of the Internet traffic across all the in/out points in the US for over a year and only costs ‘billions of dollars’ They do it already. What makes you sure that they don’t throw black ops budgets at anything that they consider to be a threat, like freedom of speech? They do it already.
From:
The US Government spends $435,841,200 (~$435 million) per hour (both portions)
- Of the total money shown above, the US Government
borrows $187,785,388 (187 million) each hour-- shown on the right
portion.
No problem filling up a UPS/Fedex truck each hour, full of
cash. The mail-man will never be out of a job processing all those
payments…
US Budget in 1 Day: $10,460,188,800
For the year 2011:
- The US Government spends $10,460,188,800 (~$10 billion, 460 million) per day (both portions)
- Of the total money shown above, the US Government borrows $4,506,849,315
(4 billion, 506 million) each day.
US Budget in 1 Week: $73,221,917,808
For the year 2011:
- The US Government spends $73,221,917,808 (~$73 billion, 221 million) per week (both portions)
- Of the total money shown above, the US Government
borrows $31,547,945,205 (31 billion, 547 million) each week-- shown on
the right portion.
US Budget in 2011: $3,818,000,000,000
For the year 2011:
- The US Government's projected budget for year 2011 is $3,818,000,000,000.
- Of the total money shown above, the pile to the right in the amount of $1,645,000,000,000
is borrowed money.
No one in the world has as big of a salary as US
Government, but it still borrows roughly 40% of the money it spends.
Source: CBO, GAO & USGovernmentSpending.com
You can say Booyakashaa when this is your weekly allowance.
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