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You appear to forget the original question....Fuelman » 36 minutes ago » wrote: ↑that explains why you got the wrong answer. Did that **** fly at your college? My 3rd grade teacher would totally degrade you for rounding that number up.
The payment in question was $1.2 billion, not $1 billion.
The budget was $6.8 trillion, not $6 trillion.
Poof, $1.2 billion of tax payer dollars disappears to unnamed sources. Only an idiot would not question where it went.
I didn't need a very exact answer...just a quick estimate to keep the arithmetic simple and to get a sense of scale.
It is the type of exercise you can do whenever you are nursing, slack jawed, at the sweaty nipple of FOX.
You might also check your citations.
But if you believe you win because the number is SMALLER.....