One billion dollars.
$1,000,000,000.
One thousand million dollars.
There’s a saying in Jackson, Wyoming that the billionaires have chased the millionaires out.
At a ratio of one to a thousand.
Keeps the riff-raff down.
So then, how much is a billion dollars, exactly?
For a person making $10 an hour, one billion dollars is the equivalent of 50,000 years of income. Fifty thousand years ago humans were living in caves, hunting mammoths. One billion dollars is a lifetime’s gross earnings of someone making $25 million per year. That’s more than most Wall Street bankers paid themselves last year.
One billion dollars is ten million $100 bills. Each bill is 6 inches long. So ten million $100 bills taped end to end would stretch 947 miles, From the Lincoln Tunnel, down the Jersey Turnpike to Philly, across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana – all the way to Chicago. But wait! There’s more!! You could continue on to Milwaukee and still have enough left to get drunk.
But wait!!
There’s even more!!!
When you add up the $700 billion bailout –
Plus the $200 billion for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac –
Plus the $80 billion for the AIG bailout –
Plus a mere $29 billion for Bear Stearns –
You get $$$ ONE TRILLION – with a "T".
That’s a lot of hundred dollar bills on the Penna Turnpike.
And a lot of hourly wages.
Then you add another $ trillion wasted in Iraq.
Million, billion, trillion? What’s the difference?
The difference is the future of America.
And Bushco wasted it.