Ever wonder when you hear the government spending “billions” of dollars how we can ever keep that number in perspective before we rubber stamp the approval?
Here are some things that should help us realize how much a billion really is…
- If you were to stack $1,000 bills on top of each other until they total $1 billion, the stack would be 65 miles high. (Keep in mind planes fly around 6 miles high).
- One billion minutes is about 1900 years – One billion minutes ago the Roman Empire ruled.
- One billion months is 82 million years – Dinosaurs ruled.
Now that we have established that, here is the good part…
Washington spends an estimated $1.45 billion per day.
The U.S. National Debt (as I write this) is approx. $9,389,090,987,915.92 (yes, that is the “Trillion” category)
U.S. Population is approx. 304,197,093
So each citizen’s share of this debt is $30,865.16
Vote Carefully…
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I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog.
Tim Ramsey
People are so out of touch when it comes to how much spending our government is increasing each year. Hey, what is another billion or so?
Didn’t someone say a billion here a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money?
I think Senator Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) gets credit for the quote…
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.”
Although I think there was some question whether he really said it. *bump*
I heard it was Dirksen also. But some people believe he never said those exact words. In either case, it sure is a lot of money!