Pocket Change
March 11th, 2007
You know how you sometimes lose a few coins when you sit down somewhere, because the coins silently slip out of your pocket and hide themselves between the chair and the cushion? Not a big deal. You know how you sometimes see a transaction on your credit card statement, and you can’t remember what the money was spent on but that you did in fact spend the money yourself? Not a big deal. You know how you sometimes lose a receipt from the grocery store so you can’t remember exactly what you bought? Not a big deal.
A few years ago, Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the Pentagon had lost track of an estimated $2.3 trillion. That’s trillion with a “T”. That’s a big deal, wouldn’t you agree?
That much money is probably enough to wipe out a few known infectious diseases as well as rid the world of hunger. And they just “lost” it. More than a few people should go through their pockets, there’s bound to be at least a few billion in there somewhere. Have they checked under the cushions in all the chairs (which have cushions)? I’ll bet they’d find another billion or so…
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