How big of a budget cut is $100 million?
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Stumble ThisHow much is $100 million dollars in budget cuts compared to the federal budget as a whole? This video illustrates the budget using 10 thousand pennies to demonstrate what fraction of that is going to be cut from it.
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
18 U.S.C. §331:
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent. (Source U.S. Mint)
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18 U.S.C. §331:
Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes, falsifies, scales or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of the United States... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
This statute means that you may be violating the law if you change the appearance of the coin and fraudulently represent it to be other than the altered coin that it is. As a matter of policy, the U.S. Mint does not promote coloring, plating or altering U.S. coinage: however, there are no sanctions against such activity absent fraudulent intent. (Source U.S. Mint)
Otherwise those penny-crushers at the various landmarks would be illegal.
...or 34,000,000$ on letters sent to people who would be receiving stimulus checks, informing them that they would be receiving checks.
I think we should petition every federal, state, and local government to turn off their air conditioning and heating systems. That alone should save a few billion dollars a year.
Know what I'd have preferred? Government NOT approving bailouts, pork, increased debt, 'stimulus' packages, and all the other crap that has increased our national debt more in the past 4 months than in the past 200+ years.
To vastly oversimplify, he wants the white line to move left, and the blue line to move right.
To picture what changed between Clinton and Bush, the blue line was to the right of the edge of the table, and Bush moved the blue line left, the white line right, and then added more pennies to the right.
It's a big mess, and every little bit helps.