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The next time you hear a politician use the word “billion” casually think about whether you do, or don’t, want that politician spending your tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but an advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure in perspective in one of its releases:
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age;
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive;
A billion seconds ago, it was 1959;
A billion pounds of UK government spending ago was just 15 hours 51 minutes back in time.
(according to Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers’ Alliance).
OR,
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;
And…
A billion dollars ago, was only 8 hours and 20 minutes at the rate Washington spends.
