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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Politics / City Number of the Day: $30,205

Posted by Bryan T. Bissell on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM

(A) The per capita income in the United States.

(B) The amount Greg Nickels spent on the ad buy for his latest commercial featuring Barack Obama.

(C) The amount of campaign contributions Greg Nickels received between August 1 and August 8, according to recent C3 reports filed with the city.

(D) The total value of the food one needs to eat in a two year period in order to become mayor-shaped.

Answer's after the jump.

(C) It's the amount contained in the latest C3 reports turned in by the Nickels campaign proving that, along with his Obama-flavored ad and rollout of a new batch of robo-calls, they're ready for the general. It is worth noting that $6100 of that money was from top brass at the engineering firm AECOM, whose subsidiary Earth Tech helped build the Link Light Rail. $5400 of it came from out of state. Eight of nine AECOM contributors gave the full $700, but their president, John Kinley, only gave $500. What a fuckin' cheapskate.

FYI: America's per capita income is $26,178.

Comments (8) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

No dude, it's $47,000, where did you get $26K?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou…

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications…

Posted by Max J on August 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM

"Answer's?" The Society Against Superfluous Apostrophes has you on their radar, Mr. Bissell. Be afraid.

Posted by TVDinner

on August 11, 2009 at 1:46 PM

I got the number from the US Census bureau. They are likely citing the median household income, which is closer to the figure you cited.

Posted by Bryan T. Bissell on August 11, 2009 at 1:49 PM

People report income for kids and others who don't have to file income tax, @1.

Not all income is taxable, especially my revenue from the Flying Spaghetti Monster Tin Foil Birther Hat Foundation .... serving America-hating bigots since Jesus rode Dinosaurs to the last spaghetti dinner.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM

@3
No per capita GDP is the amount of Economic output (aka money) made in the US divided by the number of people, not households. $47,000 is the "average total income" of every man, woman, child, invalid, retiree, etc. in the country.

4's answer makes sense.

Posted by Max J on August 11, 2009 at 2:09 PM

#2 "Answer is after the jump"

Posted by w7ngman

on August 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM

@6, I am no english major, but I am pretty sure no "'s" or any shortening of "is" was needed when you could have simply said "Answer after the jump."

Posted by Akbar Fazil on August 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM

I thought it was going to be E) The amount every grocery store has to raise their prices, just to give out those lightweight reusable plastic bags, per visit, per person. That would be almost as accurate as the Mayoral Campaign for Bag Taxes cites.

Posted by YeahMeToo