If the numbers hold up, Minnesota's Norm Coleman has doubled the Oil for Food ripoff amount to $21.3 billion dollars. That seems like a lot of money, but a little difficult to grasp. Bear with me here, I don't have a calculator that can use scientific notation, so the numbers are rough. The ballpark should be correct though. Running from 1991 to 2003, so that's 13 years (being inclusive to err conservatively), that's around $1.615 billion per year, or $4.425 million per day, $184,000 per hour, $3073 per minute, or most pointedly, $51 per second. Would you do me a favor or two if I gave you $50 per second for 13 years? I think so.
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