Saturday, March 05, 2005

WHAT IS A BILLION?

A friend sent this to me the other day and I found it extremely interesting.
This truly put a BILLION in perspective !!! . . .
The next time you here 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 1973. 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 our republican
controlled government spends it.
WOW!

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