{"id":1386018,"date":"2019-01-27T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=964704"},"modified":"2019-01-27T23:12:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:12:29","slug":"letter-5-billion-wasted-on-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/letter-5-billion-wasted-on-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: $5 billion wasted on a wall? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">Republicans don&#8217;t have the ability to reveal to the nation what $5 billion spent on a border wall would mean when compared to federal spending of $4,100 billion in a year. They declare that $5 billion is 0.0012 of total government spending. Few citizens can grasp what that means.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Assume one silver dollar represents $1 billion. Now deliver 4,105 $1 silver coins to a basketball court near you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s4\">Stack the coins in two columns on that maple floor. The thickness, or height, of a single silver dollar is 0.079 inches. The five coins representing $5 billion reach 3\/8 inch above the floor. The 4,100 coins representing $4,100 billion extends 27 feet to the rafters, the height of a three story brick building.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Now 99 out of 100 citizens will know what $5 billion means when compared to total federal spending. A simple &#8220;show and tell&#8221; was all that was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Floyd Diemoz<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Glenwood Springs<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-5-billion-wasted-on-a-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans don&#8217;t have the ability to reveal to the nation what $5 billion spent on a border wall would mean when compared to federal spending of $4,100 billion in a year. They declare that $5 billion is 0.0012 of total government spending. Few citizens can grasp what that means.\u00a0 Assume one silver dollar represents $1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 00:16:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}