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$3 quadrillion dollar lawsuit:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080109/ap_on_re_us/katrina_flood_lawsuits

Lovely.

What I love about this stuff is that no one cares to consider where the quadrillion dollars, or whatever figure, would come from. This case is obviously ridiculous but the same applies when you hear some outrageous lawsuit against a state or municipality...where do these folks think that the money to pay the settlements comes from?

Rant concluded.

Beta wrote:$3 quadrillion dollar lawsuit:

Sounds about right. I wonder how much will be used on strippers and porn? At least a quadrillion, I would assume. Fortunately, they'll probably stash the rest away in a sensible tax shelter or maybe a 529 for their kid's education...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/14/fema.audit/index.html

Obviously we all realize that it's just a "high ball" for what they really want. Why say quadrillion? I am shocked they didn't just say "infinity", or "eleventy"...but regardless....

Here's the "per person" amount for you folks that don't deal with large numbers. A quadrillion is a 1000 trillion.

469,032 (US Census Bureau)
$3,014,170,389,176,410 (Asking Price, Yahoo News)

$6,426,364,062.96 Per Person, regardless of age.

Essentially making every resident of New Orleans one of the richest people in the world.

I repeat, it's obviously a high-ball figure that will be worked down...but geez.

Those of us that (used to) frequent New Orleans can only imagine someone with a $6 billion dollar Louisiana Purchase card.

Beta wrote:Obviously we all realize that it's just a "high ball" for what they really want. Why say quadrillion? I am shocked they didn't just say "infinity", or "eleventy"...but regardless....

Here's the "per person" amount for you folks that don't deal with large numbers. A quadrillion is a 1000 trillion.

469,032 (US Census Bureau)
$3,014,170,389,176,410 (Asking Price, Yahoo News)

$6,426,364,062.96 Per Person, regardless of age.

Essentially making every resident of New Orleans one of the richest people in the world.

I repeat, it's obviously a high-ball figure that will be worked down...but geez.

Those of us that (used to) frequent New Orleans can only imagine someone with a $6 billion dollar Louisiana Purchase card.

Or, put another way, every man, woman, and child in the country would have to contribute roughly $10,047,000 to cover this. I don't know about you, but I don't think my family can come up with $40 million this month.

LaxRef wrote:

Beta wrote:Obviously we all realize that it's just a "high ball" for what they really want. Why say quadrillion? I am shocked they didn't just say "infinity", or "eleventy"...but regardless....

Here's the "per person" amount for you folks that don't deal with large numbers. A quadrillion is a 1000 trillion.

469,032 (US Census Bureau)
$3,014,170,389,176,410 (Asking Price, Yahoo News)

$6,426,364,062.96 Per Person, regardless of age.

Essentially making every resident of New Orleans one of the richest people in the world.

I repeat, it's obviously a high-ball figure that will be worked down...but geez.

Those of us that (used to) frequent New Orleans can only imagine someone with a $6 billion dollar Louisiana Purchase card.

Or, put another way, every man, woman, and child in the country would have to contribute roughly $10,047,000 to cover this. I don't know about you, but I don't think my family can come up with $40 million this month.

With how much Marquette is paying me to coach, this is a drop in the bucket!!!