China Claims Ripoff

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

China claims the mining giant overcharged it by $100 million over six years.

 

 

http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/10/news/inter...a_rio/index.htm

[Randy W]

Make that "billion"

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/...html#cnnSTCText

Edited August 10, 2009 by Randy W (see edit history)

[tsap seui]

Aww, what a few bucks between friends? THey had to get the funds to pay off the "proper officals" somehow didn't they?

 

Ya know, maybe I'm jaded from living in America, but a figure like that for such a large company ain't a spit in a bucket. We've got individuals that scam more than that.

 

A billion ain't shit anymore....I reckon a trillion would make someone give a damn, but a billion....heck, that only takes a few hours to print up.

 

Buckwheat seui

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

Aww, what a few bucks between friends? THey had to get the funds to pay off the "proper officals" somehow didn't they?

 

Ya know, maybe I'm jaded from living in America, but a figure like that for such a large company ain't a spit in a bucket. We've got individuals that scam more than that.

 

A billion ain't shit anymore....I reckon a trillion would make someone give a damn, but a billion....heck, that only takes a few hours to print up.

 

Buckwheat seui

 

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

 

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

 

Everett Dirksen

 

And Dirksen Ghost would say:

 

¡°Do you mean to tell me it took you guys less than half a century to devalue the U.S. dollar so much that now a trillion is the mock trivial sum a billion used to be? Do you guys even know that a trillion is a thousand billions? Pretty soon you¡¯re talking about unreal money¡­¡±

Edited August 11, 2009 by Tony n Terrific (see edit history)