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If a person computed the Grotesque $dollars$ spent on Iraq, MIC No-bids, this Bank-Buddy Bailout and a few of the other egregious misuses of taxpayer and fiat dollars -- and divided by the number of Americans and Iraqis (include those that were alive before we exterminated them for their resources ... and shared democracy with them) -- WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THESE FUNDS?!

Big Bankers Blink; Paulson's Unprecedented Power; Shock and Awe Hints at the Good and Evil We May Soon Face 2008

"_Dollars, dollars, dollars_" beat a tattoo on my ear-drums as the rain used to on the roof at the old farmhouse.

Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

So it went all over the busy assemblage -- "_dollars, dollars, dollars_," how to get them, how to get them quick.

Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

A New York magazine has offered five hundred dollars for a best story -- _five hundred dollars_!

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Boston was reduced to the "ruinous rates" of only two dollars, the receipts on the different routes were $45,208; but during the corresponding month of the present year, with the fare up to four dollars, the receipts have been only $35,963: being _nine thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars_ less for a single month, than when the fares were at half-price.

Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements Various 1838

Eighty thousand dollars 'worth of cigars, it was estimated, were consumed in the city of New York in 1810; at that rate the present annual consumption would amount to more than _two hundred thousand dollars_.

An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health 1823

But lest even this very moderate calculation should be considered extravagant, which is by many competent judges believed to be far too low, we will reckon the consumers at one million, and the average cost at ten dollars each a year, for the whole; and then we have _the enormous tax of three millions of dollars_, to be annually paid in these United States for the useless consumption of this loathsome drug.

A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco Moses Stuart 1816

Whoerermalicioiisly destroys or Iniores any property not his own, shall, if the Talne of the thing destroyed, or the injury done, is one hundred dollars or more, be impilsooed in the penitentiary not nxre than seren years or less than one year, or. if the Talue is less than that sum, be fined not more than fire hundred dollars« or imprisoned not more than thirty daySfOr botiii?

The Principal Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .... Church of Scotland General Assembly , Church of Scotland , General Assembly 1791

He did aid an '' bet, as the loryers call it, in thet, an 'thet proves him 'bout as mean as a white man ever gits ter be; an', 'sides thet, he did _sell_ har fur twenty dollars -- a' ooman thet even th '' judge '-- an' he _ar_ a _judge_ uv sech things -- was willin 'ter pay twenty-five hun'red fur; he _did_ sell har fur _twenty dollars_; an' thet proves him a fool!

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Again, during our late war with Great Britain, of less than three years 'duration, _two hundred and eighty thousand muskets were lost, _ -- the average cost of which is stated at twelve dollars, -- making an aggregate loss, in muskets alone, _of three millions and three hundred and sixty thousand dollars_, during a service of about two years and a half; -- resulting mainly from that neglect and waste of public property which almost invariably attends the movements of newly-raised and inexperienced forces.

Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. Henry Wager Halleck 1843