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One BILLION
May. 9th, 2004 12:12 amStolen from a friendster bulletin board posting...
"The next time you hear a politician use
the words "billion" casually, think about whether you want that
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 dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20
minutes, at the rate Washington spends it."
"The next time you hear a politician use
the words "billion" casually, think about whether you want that
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 dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20
minutes, at the rate Washington spends it."
