Re: [Phys-l] innumeracy

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I post again:



Nope;  nobody said it.  It's a political myth.

http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_emd_billionhere.htm

bc myth buster via Wikipedia

and I thought it was a democrat!

On 2008, Feb 29, , at 09:11, Steve Highland wrote:


> ("A billion here, a billion there ... Pretty soon you're talking real
> money."  -- wasn't that from Barry Goldwater?)

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On 2008, Mar 01, , at 18:45, Phillip E. Parker wrote:

> On 03/01/2008 Steve Highland <shighlan@uslink.net> wrote:
>
> > ("A billion here, a billion there ... Pretty soon you're talking real
> > money."  -- wasn't that from Barry Goldwater?)
>
> Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill), early to mid 1960s.
>
> --
>     Phil Parker
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