furniture dollars

President Obama has just been sworn into office.  He’s hittin’ the ground running to fix the economy.  In the recent years the tab to fix this economy adds up to about $8 trillion including Obama’s economic stimulus plan.

Bail: 8 Gagillion Million Billion.... dollars.

16 Times the Iraq War
Last time I talked about the Iraq war costing each of us 10 of the finest Visiondecor dining chairs.  This time the $8 trillion bailout is 16 times the $500 billion cost of the Iraq War.

Expensive!
Since this is such an expensive number, let me pick one of our most expensive items to put this into perspective.  Let’s take our beautiful $3800 5PC Newcastle Collection California Cal King Size Bed Complete Bedroom Set.  You can get about 2.1 billion of these bedroom sets at the price tag of the bailouts right now.

Can you use 7 Bedroom Sets?
Each and every one of us 303 million American citizens will be able to get 7 of these bedroom sets.  Which is about $26,600 per person.  That’s a lot of sleeping we have to do to make use of all those bedroom sets.

This is my second Furniture dollars post and these numbers are getting scary.  What are your thoughts?

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Bluefin tuna is a gourmet food.  A few weeks ago a Hong Kong sushi bar owner paid $104,400 for a 282 pound bluefin tuna.  That’s about $370 a pound.

Do I have $104?? Sold to the HK Man.

Eat it formally
Since the fish was so expensive, I think it should be served on a nice formal dining room table set.  Speaking about that set I would be able to get almost 44 dining room sets at $2385 a set with $104,400.00.

Sheesh.  One fish.  44 dining tables.  And not to mention the 264 chairs that would come with it too.

Fish Profits
No wonder sushi bars charge so much for the food.  And to think I always thought they made so much money charging me $20 for 4 pieces of fish.  That Hong Kong sushi bar owner must be making a lot of money to afford that fish.

That’s just seems a little too much.  What do you think?

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I used to go to a junior high where they had Raider dollars. Raiders was our mascot. It was a pirate looking thing.

In Furniture We Trust

But anyways, when we were kids it was great to get awarded Raider dollars because we could get things from the student store with it. We could get basketballs, school shirts, pencils and that got me thinking.

Numbers too big to imagine
We see some big numbers regarding the economy in the news. So big that we don’t really feel how much the $500 billion Iraq war really costs (probably even more since I wrote this article). So I’m going to put things into Furniture Dollars perspective here.

Need some extra dining chairs?
Let’s see. $500 billion in furniture dollars would be able to get you 1.7 billion our most expensive dining chairs. (See the Set of 2 Espresso Brown Leather Parson Dining Chairs) Where each chair shipped to your door would be $293. That’s a lot of chairs. And still a lot to imagine how much that would be, right?

Family of Five
Considering that the average family has about 5 people, there would be enough chairs for 342 million families. There’s about 303 million people in the entire country of the United States.
So each and every one of us US citizens would be able to get a family’s set of 10 chairs. That’s more chairs than I need and that’s a costly war.

That’s our furniture dollar sense for you this week. Let me know what you think and maybe what your thoughts are regarding the cost of the war.

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