Perspective

How About This For Perspective?


What is a Billion?! This is too true to be very funny!

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. (I believe this is actually an old, 2006 , rate of spending.)

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 (D), is presently
asking the Congress for 0 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 6,528.
B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans, your home gets textarea,329,787.
C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family
gets ,066,012.

Washington, D.C. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??

About the Author

Bob is a financial conservative. It is because of politicians' complete lack of responsibility that we are headed into another recession. If these people had any common sense, or had a view of our nation which wasn't completely self absorbed, outrageous proposals like the one above would never make it past the trash can, let alone to the floor of congress.