<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like? : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like? : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We hear dollar figures thrown out about the cost of things every day.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45632/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45632/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Cannabis distributors plead: &quot;Let us pay taxes!&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[So California once again finds themselves with a budget shortfall of a Billion Dollars. That is a lot of zeros!<br/> California cannabis growers/dealers plead to have their product legalized and taxed. They assure that thier product alone will raise at least the full billion dollars missing in tax revenues, preventing the closing of any government service]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/40860/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/40860/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Smuggling Exotic Pets Is $10 Billion Dollar Industry Second To Drugs]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers estimate that millions of pets, animal parts and meats are covertly smuggled across the border totaling a $10 billion industry, second only to illegal drugs.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35589/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35589/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe To Issue 100 Billion Dollar Note]]></title><description><![CDATA[The official inflation rate in Zimbabwe is running at 2,200,000%.  In response to what this means to the prices of standard goods on shelves the Zimbabwean Treasury has announced they will be printing a one billion dollar bill.<br/><br/>This would probably buy two loaves of bread.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/69299/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/69299/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[How much is a &quot;Billion?&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ever tried to visualize a huge number, and fail?  This site will help:<br/>&quot;Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a &quot;billion&quot; really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: &quot;What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?&quot; <br/><br/>    All the following pages have tables at the bottom, listing things such as the value of the pennies, size of the pile, weight, and area (if laid flat). All weights and measurements are U.S. standards, not metric.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/7898/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/7898/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[When is a dollar worth more than a dollar? When the mint goofs.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Some dollar coins lack &quot;In God We Trust.&quot; The mint promised it wouldn't happen again, but you know what? It happened again.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24440/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24440/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Wants For Sale]]></title><description><![CDATA[A genius artist couple started a website where they paint the various things they want, then sell the paintings for the real life cost of those things, then buy the things with the money from the paintings.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/63327/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/63327/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[ US Mint to release Jefferson dollar coin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most folks can correctly name George Washington as the nation's first president. After that, things get tricky. The U.S. Mint is hoping its new dollar coin series will help refresh some hazy memories of Adams, Jefferson and all the rest.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31703/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31703/1/</guid><category>politics</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>