The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether or not you want the 'politicians' spending your tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a goo job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's recent 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.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the current rate of U.S. government spending.
Might want to give this information some thought as you listen to the policitians who have supreme benefit packages, and better than supreme retirement packages, and throw the word billion around like drunken gun slingers. They have to win to keep the fancy salary and benefits so is it possible they'd lie to you to win? Is it likely they've pulled the wool over our eyes a billion times already. I'm telling you, watch 'em, it's an election year and they're in survival mode!
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