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363 Tons of Cash:

… that’s TONS people, on big wooden pallets, sent to Iraq. $4 billion in cash in loose change and twenties.

Most people are outraged at the blinding mismanagement that’s finally coming out after all these years. Finally, oversight, which is Congress’ goddam job.

I was wondering earlier how you visualize such a large amount of anything, let alone money. People know what money is, but in hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. Four billion dollars in 100s is a lot of stuff. If 100s come in bundles of 50, that’s 800,000 bundles.

Or a stack 271 miles high assuming a thickness of .0043 inches. I’m not going to work out how many pallets. Assuming one ton per pallet is obscene and I suspect that’s too high.

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