A Little Perspective

[DJ_Asia]

If youre like me,then youre incapable of wrapping ones mind around the concept of 700 billion dollars which is the proposed amount that is to be given to bailout the crooks on Wall Street.

Heres some perspective for you to ponder.

1,000,000 (1 million) seconds equals ~0.031 years
1,000,000,000 (1 billion) seconds equals ~31.6 years

1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) seconds equals ~31,688.8 years

Did that make you feel good about your country?

[Alyssa87]

sooo then can i move in with u?

[rvince]

If youre like me,then youre incapable of wrapping ones mind around the concept of 700 billion dollars which is the proposed amount that is to be given to bailout the crooks on Wall Street.
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Did that make you feel good about your country?

Come on!
It's only $2300 per american citizen! Just cough up the money and stop whining! ...Oh, and vote Republican again on Nov 4th too!

[Justawannabe]

It is a funny number to think about... I'm more surprised that more folks aren't pulling out the comparisons to the gilded age/depression stuff, but that number has stopped everyone dead in their tracks.

Sean