Adding Insult to Injury

Imagine you're walking down the street and you spot seven dollars on the ground-- a five and two singles. Nobody is around, it's the middle of nowhere. How would you feel? Pretty lucky, I'm guessing. That would put a spring in your step. Now imagine you find 70 dollars! You might want to tell someone about your good fortune, possibly buy a friend dinner or get that new whatever you've been wanting.

So what if you found $700? That would be totally crazy, like, "Oh my God, this is a great day!" What if you won the lottery and got a check for $7,000? Or you won the jackpot and got $700,000? These are huge numbers. Chances are you would want to pay off some bills and then give a lot away to charity.

Now imagine the number $700 MILLION! That's how much was just spent to pay homage to the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center. That money could have fed a lot of people, built a few hospitals, fixed a lot of problems in our crumbling cities. Instead, all that money went into a couple of big holes in lower Manhattan, along with waterfalls and a museum detailing the events of a horrendous moment in history. They must be having quite a laugh over at Al Qaida headquarters about it.