Just How Many Is A Billion?

[jimras]

The next time you hear a politician use the word “billion†casually, think about whether he or she is the right one to be spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but an advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its publicity releases:

* A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

* A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

* A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

* A billion days ago no person walked on two feet on earth.

* A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the

rate our government spends it.

Makes you think, don't it?

jr

[bozodog]

[marko_tomas13]

Spending my money on pointless policies, we need to teach them a lesson

[X-Cannon]

U spend 2.54 Billion each day and the national debt is around 8.419 TRILLION

[Pierce]

Theres 31.5million second in a year.

But a better way to look at it, is like this.

Bill Gates makes that every 50 days~.

Irelands budget is in the billions, not Trillions.

Earning $45,000 a year, would take 22,222 years to make a billion.

3.3million licences of windows

a parking lot with 7142 ferrari's

10 top penthouses in lower manhatton.

an oc-768 (40Gigabit internet connection) for 100 years.

20 private 717 jets

100 dedicated servers on 100mbit lines, for 5555years

Or 1 policy

Pierce

[jcl]

U spend 2.54 Billion each day and the national debt is around 8.419 TRILLION

It's closer to $6.9 billion per day today. Inflation

[X-Cannon]

ya, didnt include that 2.54 was from sept 2005