The President just passed a $162 Billion Dollar War spending bill. How many dollars is that per American??

Question

The President just passed a $162 Billion Dollar War spending bill. How many dollars is that per American??

Answer 1

Let's simply assume there are 300 million people in the US. That would be $540 per American. Apparently, there's much better use for the money.

Answer 2

I cannot say.  But McDonald's would know, as they practically inventing counting in capitalistic figures of "billions" with their product sales.  Which is actually an unknown for most humans whose scientifically proven consecutive memory of digit recall is limited to only nine.  Hence the adherence to the 9 digit Social Security Personal Number.  Telephone numbers that must include area codes and the 7 digits tax the patience of most people and even an auto license plate number in California is not worth the effort.  

Therefore, since a billion of any thing is virtually impossible for myself to visualize, or know as something tangible, and especially since I can't say, "No, sorry, I will not contribute any money to the war bill" then it matters nothing to me whether I read the War is costing $162,000,000,000 or $161,999,999,999.

By the way, shouldn't the question be:  $162 Billion Dollar War Spending Bill Per ????   Per war, per year, per month, per week, or day?  I may not know a lot of adding up nines, but $162 Billion is excessive any way you divide it.

Answer 3

according to the US census burogh there are 304,484,142

people in th united states as of 08:36 GMT (EST+5) Jul 01, 2008. divide 162,000,000,000 by 304,484,142 and you get 532.05 or about 2 weeks pay at 6.65 an hour

Answer 4

Actually the president signed a $162 Billion Dollar War spending bill only the congress can "pass" bills. The senate passed it 92-6 and the house passed it 268-155. To answer your question that would be about $540 per person.