1/16/04 What Is It - Round 2
#37911 - 01/16/04 08:45 AM
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Over seven and a half cents of each dollar in America, ends up here. What is it?
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bank?
stock market?
the garbage?
an offshore bank in the Cayman Islands? 
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taxes
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nope..nothing yet!
I'm real busy at work again today so I'll keep poppin in and out when I can to check.....
Happy guessin! 
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Okay I have to go to work to.. One last guess..
Our own pockets??
Washing machine
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The car floor/cup holder/ coin holder
Vending machine
On top of the dresser
Under the couch/chair cushions
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Towards pointless things that we'll only use once lol
In a coin dish
Behind a piece of furniture
In jewelry(I don't know if they put nickel in jewelry, but aren't dimes and quarters made of some silver?)
With that last answer, you can tell that I'm already running out of ideas! I'm going to go take a break now. Be back later when I think of more ideas!
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Bear in mind people, this comes to $583,732,500 a year. So it's something darn big!
That said, I still have no idea what it is.
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Bear in mind people, this comes to $583,732,500 a year. So it's something darn big!
HINT: this amount is not from just one person....
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Well, considering there are like 4 people in the US who could pay that, I didn't think so.
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lottery!! God knows I could use a piece of that... 
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I'm trying to think of another hint.......
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schools
library
charity
hospitals
military
pay off foreign debt
colleges
social security
welfare
insurance
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HINT: think of where a lot of people use money
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I doubt its going to be any charitable thing. Did you know the average American donates .60 cents a year to the arts from their taxes? And then they whine about what their tax dollars are supporting. Tax dollars? Yeah right.
Ooh... sorry, bit of a crusader on that cause.
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bank fees? credit card interest?
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Coin slots? Vegas? Dog/horse/car races? Gambling of any sort? Lol...
Education, College, seeing movies, fast food
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grocery stores?
gas stations?
fastfood?
prescriptions?
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grocery stores?
This one is kinda sorta close
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food? Subsidizing farmers?
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Okay! Okay!
Diet foods and gimics and specialty foods???
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manufactures?
clothing retail?
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food?
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clothing retail?
These could both kinda sorta help you with the answer
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Walmart super centers!!!
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Walmart super centers!!!
WOW... I can't beleive someone got it that fast really...LOL You ROCK!! Your turn Monday to start the game
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YEAH!!!! I FINALLY GOT ONE!!!I SHOULD OF KNOWN THAT IT'S ONE OF MY BIGGEST COMPETTITORS!!! I'M SOO EXCITED NO STANDING APPLAUSE PLEASE!!!HA!HA! 
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Walmart super centers!!!
WOW... I can't beleive someone got it that fast really...LOL You ROCK!! Your turn Monday to start the game
Okay! I have all weekend to think one up...It's going to be a good one!!  
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Oooooooh, how very interesting. My dad would be very unhappy to hear this, he hates Super Walmart and all that they stand for. In his own words, he would rather go hungry than shop there...lol, can you tell they are also his top competitor, Sherr?
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#38087 - 01/16/04 02:47 PM
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BarbaraS
Reged: 02/12/03
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Loc: Wisconsin
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Be a crusader all you want!! I didn't know .60 cents of our taxes supported the arts. 
I'm at the stage of my life I want to know how much of my taxes are fundinging the schools. My kids are K, 2 and 3 grade and my K is in a classroom size of 29 children. Three teachers retired at the school last year and not one was replaced. I have to wait a year and half to get into Nursing School because the College says they can't afford to pay more teachers.
I could go and on too.
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Yeah, I forget the exact percentage of the taxes that go to schools, aargh. I took several classes on Consumption and Justice and Social/Political Philosophy but I can't remember/find the exact amount. Anyway, I know that there was some ridiculously low figure that it would take to educate every kid (maybe 5 bil?) but we won't/don't put forth that money.
I'm also VERY concerned about Bush's "no kid left behind" testing program. I don't think first graders should be tested every year, and I don't think teachers should have to spend a whole year teaching for a test. Blech. What do you think?
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Believe me I do alot with local schools and private too an I rather see more tax dollars spent in schooling education and repairs. I have three in school grammer/jr high and high school..Teachers need more too!! I already got my what is for Monday Can't wait to post it. I have to work so I'll check it throughout the day. Can't wait to see who the winner is.
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Ohhhh... don't even get me started about the No Child Left Behind Act. I think the whole thing is a bunch of cr**. High stakes testing is not the answer to our country's educational problems. 
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I don't understand how you can test first graders. It is a big year for them. Alot a kids are going to school for the first time all day, but most importantly they are learning how to read. I rather have my children learn to read, add and subtract than prepare for some test.
I also don't believe children should be given tests in first grade. My 3rd grader attended a different school in first grade and he was given 10 minute Math time tests. He had to complete a 100 problems in 10 minutes. I believe that is why he hates math now.
I could go on and on, but I won't. Our taxes are not being used wisely and like alot of parents in my school district we want to know the break down of where our tax money is going. My school district has to cut 2.5 million dollars out of their budget for Fall of 2004 and we are furious the classroom sizes will be larger and our kids won't have extra programs available to them.
Maybe the next presindent will fix the problems in our country instead of trying to fix other countries who don't want America there.
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I don't understand how you can test first graders. It is a big year for them. Alot a kids are going to school for the first time all day, but most importantly they are learning how to read. I rather have my children learn to read, add and subtract than prepare for some test.
I also don't believe children should be given tests in first grade.
When my mom taught first grade last year (she teaches kindergarton now), she basically revolved her lesson plans around that test. She made sure that she covered everything that would be on there because the scores are made public (not by individual students, but by schools). Parents don't enroll their kids in low-scoring schools and the schools don't get funding without enrollment.
What is scary is that this year in kindergarton, her students can already read certain words by sight. And by the 6th week of class, they were already towards the end of the alphabet learning all the sounds! This caused a lot of trouble with students who joined kindergarton late (a lot of clueless parents when it came to registration time...) and are already behind, even though it was only October! My mom hates it, but that's the lesson plan that she's given and she has to have her kids meet certain goals or else they're held back.
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