Katrina Victims sue U.S. Government for $3,014,170,389,176,410

[Lenin II]

Here's the link to the story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22571349/?GT1=10755 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22571349/?GT1=10755)


You read that number right: over three QUADRILLION dollars.

Comments on the class nature of this, anyone?

[Faux Real]

What class nature? This seems more like a prank.

This is not to say that the victims shouldn't receive aid, preferably not only by tossing money towards "reconstruction" companies.

[Red October]

No government on Earth has anywhere close to a quadrillion dollars. I think the Katrina victims would be more likely to actually get money if they didn't sure for such a ridiculous and nonjexistant amount of money.

[Lenin II]

No government on Earth has anywhere close to a quadrillion dollars.
Unless it's in Zimbabwe dollars, in which case it's about 36 bucks.


I think the Katrina victims would be more likely to actually get money if they didn't sure for such a ridiculous and nonjexistant amount of money.

They're not going to get paid no matter what, because the government will never acknowledge the ethinic cleansing going on in New Orleans as something wrong, at least not until after the fact. I think perhaps this is meant to be symbolic, as if to say that all the money on earth won't make up for the Katrina atrocity.

[lvleph]

I am a mathematician and I am not even sure what number that is. Quadrillion? lol

[Lenin II]

I am a mathematician and I am not even sure what number that is. Quadrillion? lol
Yes, actually. What's funny is i don't even think that amount of money exists on the planet. I wonde rhow far this case will go. Usually the courts don't give out the full sum asked for anyway.

[Comeback Kid]

lol.