What is a billion

[Toots]

Subject: whats a billion?

The next time you hear a politician use the word
"billion," casually, think about whether you want the
politician spending your tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one
advertising agency did a good job of putting that
figure into perspective in one of its 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-one walked on two feet on earth.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate the government spends it.

[Elwood P Dowd]

1. What about

a slight change....

"A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate the government spends it."

to this....

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 mintues, at the
rate Bush is spending OUR money.

[izzie]

2. A Sen from Ca. once wrote a book on this. Hayakawa----

Had to read it in college years ago. He was a Prof. from some Ca. college.

[HamdenRice]

3. A billion is ten dollars

That's how one of my professors used to explain it. There are about 100 million taxpaying households, so each time the government spends a billion, it is spending $10 of your tax money.

Each time shrub asks for an extra $80 billion for Iraq, that's like his taking $800 of your money. Do you have an extra $800 lying around to waste on this criminal war?

[DrDebug]

4. Or you can use a graphic

This is $1,000,000



So think of a thousand of those stacks

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I first tried to find a picture for a billion, but it doesn't exist. I did find the following picture which is both appropriate and looks like it has been made by DistressedAmerican