One hundred and sixteen thousand thousand thousand thousand dollars?
That’s a line of one hundred dollar bills, laid end to end, stretching from here to the sun.
That’s the entire United States east of the Mississippi covered in pennies.
You could build fifty thousand world trade centers with that, or, alternately, make every person who died on September 11 worth almost as much as Bill Gates.
You could buy every man, woman, and child in the United States a modest-sized house with that much money, or a fairly decent car for everyone alive in the world today.
That’s somewhere around three times the gross national product of the world, not to mention Saudi Arabia alone.
That is one shitload of money. I want 116 trillion dollars.
I’m not greedy. I’ll take one day’s interest on 116 trillion dollars, at 1.75%, which, if I didn’t futz the math, is a cool 5.6 billion dollars (rounded).
These happy fools forgot to mention the families of the victims of the WTC are suing Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and a host of other Islamic organizations for 116 trillion. Kinda dumb if you ask me, considering the GDP of the US is about 10 trillion.
Let’s see if I can get this story correct. There was this woman whose husband was murdered by people incited to violence by the local KKK. She was helped to sue them for a whole lot of money. So much money that not only were the local clan made broke when they lost the case but she even ended up getting their local headquarters in the end.
So it’s a strategy that can work. Although the pundits make it sound like the State Dept. will eventually squash the case since we’re allies if Saudi Arabia.
You know. I bet if I had 116 trillion $1 bills and I cumpled them up and made a great big pile, it would be soft enough that I could jump out of a plane at 30,000 feet and survive.
Nope, I got it sort of wrong. Aryan Nation not KKK. And her husband wasn’t murdered but rather her and her son were shot at and assaulted. Here’s a later BBC story on it.
Suing an entire country for some of its bad elements is like suing Boeing for making exploding planes. We’d be attacking the innocent as well the guilty. It’s not like we’re not ALREADY trying to isolate them financially, using resources that regular civilians would not have like the UN, various international banks in conjunction with our own allies’ governments. This is just a sad publicity stunt where only the bloodsucking lawyers are going to be getting the money AND media spotlight. And where the FUCK does an arbitrary number like 116 trillion come from?? Especially when the COMBINED GDPs of the every nation on earth doesn’t even come close to that. The Libyan government, a poor backwards ass country, is offering 2 billion to the Pan Am flight 103 victims so that their country can re-enter the world arena instead of being isolated. How in the HELL does the WTC incident multiply this incident by 50,000??? We’re putting a price on human life and it’s lame. People die wrongful deaths all the time. By this stupid logic, everyone should be suing the pants off eachother for the last 6000 years of human civilization.
According to this article, the $100 trillion figure was a mistake (not sure where CNN got their $116 trillion figure), and has been amended to “more than $1 trillion” - whatever that means (possibly $115 trillion).
Which is still an insane amount of $ - even if you don’t consider Tourian and fallom’s points.
And for the record, I think the OP was being sarcastic.
(And I’d still like to know if legal winnings are taxable in the US - I imagine they are because it would be unlike Uncle Sam to let such a source of tax $ go untapped.)
Why?