How Much Is One Billion?

[Ron]

..............I find this sobering and much too true ....food for thought for everyone



How many zeros are there in a Billion???

This is too true to be 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 hard earned 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 it's 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 (as an example).

It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.





Louisiana Senator,

Mary Landrieu (D)

is was asking the USA Congress for

250 BILLION DOLLARS

to rebuildNew Orleans .. Interesting number...

what does it mean?

A.

Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans

(every man, woman, and child)

each would get $516,528.

B.

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

C..

Or... if you are a family of four...

each family should get $2,066,012.

Cont'd