Thursday, September 18, 2008

Day Four: $575 Million (Sept 12, 2008)

Policy announcement #4: $575,000,000

Running Total: $1,210,000,000
We cracked a billion dollars! Woooooooooo!

Cost to each taxpayer $36.69 ($1.21 Billion between 32.976M of us):

Can I afford $36.69? Yeah, sure! I could buy a couple dvds for a friend's birthday, but 37 bones ain't too bad.

Things you can buy with $36.69:

30 medium coffees from Tim Hortons ($1.22);

4 4-packs of CFL lightbulbs ($8.97);
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&productId=100527335&N=10000003+502955+10401001

1 Sansa 2GB MP3 Player ($29.99 after rebate);
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10086866&catid=

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