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A Billion in perspective
The next time you hear a politician use the word "billion" casually, think about whether you want that 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 1959.
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.
And I felt the need to add some of my own analogies:

With a billion dollars, you could buy 25,000 luxury cars, priced at 40,000 a piece.
With a billion dollars, you could buy a pack of gum for every person in the United States!

Every billion seconds, 125,000,000 babies are born in the U.S.
I hope that puts it into perspective for you!
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