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The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' 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 some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

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

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division . .Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C.. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

OOH, anyone from New Orleans want to float me a loan?
 
no no no you have it all wrong............200billion goes to bureaucrats & politicans- 50 goes to employees of the bureaucrats employees and realitives....we who are struggling to stay alive get the wrappers from the money...........when they tell how much good they did with it
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1,000,000,000 sec x 1 min/60 sec x 1 hr/60 sec x 1 day/24 hours x 1 year/365 days = 31.7 years

1,000,000,000 min x 1 hour/60 min x 1 day/24 hours x 1 year/365 days = 1902.58 years

1,000,000,000 days x 1 year/365 days = 2,939,726 years
 
& it was such a nice thread for a few minutes........
 
I think the answers just depend on whether you're using governmental/political math which always magically yields the numbers that you want or whether you're using the math that the rest of plain folk use.
 
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Heck, who needs a billion?? The Federal government throws TRILLIONS around like confetti!

That's TRILLIONS, friends! A thousand billion.

It's too many tax dollars to comprehend:makes my head hurt, I'm going back to my hole . . . /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif
 
They literally turn billions into confetti at the money store, and you can buy shredded cash for well...more cash.
 
I got one of those little containers of shredded $100 bills when I was young. Spent hours meticulously trying to piece it all back together, you know what...all the pieces weren't there....Another slap of reality. Perhaps that's why I like my LBC so much, I can spend hours meticulously piecing it back together and I am rewarded for my effors. There's a lesson there somewhere I think..... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif
 
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