a billion reasons to rethink our system

soundbytepsychology:

Nine zeros behind a one is easy to write, but a billion is a difficult number to comprehend. What is one billion in 2012?

• A billion seconds ago, it was 1981.
• A billion minutes ago, the “current era” had barely celebrated its first century (111 C.E.).
• A billion hours ago, our ancestors were still living in the Stone Age.
• A billion days ago, no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
• A billion dollars ago was spent in less than one and a half hours at the current rate of government spending in the United States.

See the original article [Here on Snopes dot Com], and look deeper into government spending [Here on US Government Spending dot Com].

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