Billions and Billions.
These days of multiple bailouts have us tossing around some pretty big dollar numbers as if they were pocket change. Three-hundred billion dollars for this, fifty billion dollars for that, and now President-elect Barack __ Obama it talking about a stimulus package that will be a whopping $775 billion.
Let’s step back for a moment.
A billion is a thousand million. Consider that a billion seconds equals approximately 32 years. So, a billion seconds ago it was 1976. 775 billion seconds ago would take you back to 23,000 B.C., and you could very well bump into a Cro-Magnon man. He’d probably want a bailout.
Here’s an interesting depiction of how a mere 315 billion (feh!) one-dollar bills would stack up.
Pretty sickening, if you ask me.
It’s just gross, isn’t it? Yeesh…
Comment by Richmond — January 13, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Amazing. Not to take away from the painful memory, but the second part of the bailout added to that would make our current bail out a Twin Towers of financial destruction.
Which is what the Islamofascists were hoping for anyway.
I miss Pogo…
Comment by Joan of Argghh! — January 13, 2009 @ 8:05 pm
Ugh. I like the visual though. They need to make it into a giant jail for all our children and grandchildren. They are basically born indentured servants at this point.
Comment by supergurl — January 14, 2009 @ 2:13 pm