Printer-friendly versionAn English billion is 1,000,000,000,000, whereas an American billion is 1,000,000,000. An American trillion is the same as an English billion and an English trillion is a million million million.
However, with the Yankeefication of British things the English have started to use the American definition now, instead of the English one.
You are paying interest on every dollar that your government borrows from the Federal Reserve Bank. The bank that is not federal and has no reserves.
A Billion is a difficult number to comprehend. The next time you hear a Politician use the word "Billion," casually --- think about whether or not you want the politician 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 perspective in one of its releases.
A Billion Seconds ago -- it was 1973.
A Billion Minutes ago -- Jesus was alive.
A Billion Hours ago -- our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A Billion Days ago -- No-One walked on two feet on earth.
A Billion Dollars ago -- was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government spends it.
If you could travel back in time to the birth of Christ, the beginning of the Gregorian calendar, and could set aside $1,350,000 ($1.35 million) every day of every week, every day of every month, and every day of every year right up to today - you still wouldn't have enough to pay off the over two trillion dollars George W. Bush has increased the national debt since he took office.
U. S. National Debt Clock http://www.toptips.com/debtclock.html
National Debt History for prior fiscal years. Years 1900 thru 2003 http://www.toptips.com/debt_history.htm
US National Debt by Presidential Term, Percentage of GDP, 1976-2004 http://www.skymachines.com/US_National_Debt_Per_Capita_Percent_of_GDP_an... sident_1976-2004. htm
Interest on the National Debt http://www.geocities.com/cmcofer/interest.html
Cost of the War in Iraq http://www.costofwar.com/
http://jahtruth.net/greeneco.htm
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i can not believe the government just bailed out a private company with one trillion dollars worth of assets. somebody will have to explain this one to me.
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For the Record, Jesus is Still Alive, You should have stated when he Walked the Earth as a man.
Secondly; President George W. Bush DID NOT Put this Country into Debt all by himself.
There is a Branch of Government, Known as the Legistlature., aka: Congress. The write the bills, they appropriate the money, not President George W. Bush.
Look how many of our elected officials has made a living of ""Serving""in the Congress!! They served alright, they served their selves, families and friends. Look at whom is on what committees, etc., and look at how long most of these people have been in ""Office"", some over 30-40-50 years.
We, the American Public all know they lie,cheat and steal, but we get what we vote for. Why do we keep electing these same people into office each and everytime?
Makes you wonder whom is the most dumbest, The Citizens or the Politicans????
Good point raised.
This is such crap. 100 years
This is such crap. 100 years ago the wealthy were pumping up a land speculation bubble which burst in our faces, and was called the great depression. Then people finally got it together and started taxing those greedy bastards - plus regulating their activities.
It is not a coincidence that during the time of highest taxation on the rich, we built the middle class, and enjoyed the longest stretch of prosperity in our history.
Finally the wealthy's PR people convinced us through Reagan that those taxes needed to come down, and so here we are looking at another depression.
The one point that could be gleaned from this is that nearly all those taxes mentioned, are designed to pick up the slack from the revenue lost when we gave the wealthy "tax relief." Reagan compensated by nearly doubling taxes on working people by increasing the regressive Social Secuity Tax which he then plundered.
We should be screaming for higher taxes - ON THE RICH!
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