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02-03-2010, 01:00 PM   #1

A Billion Pounds!


(This was part of an email I received and it's really not so funny....)

A Billion Pounds means nothing unless you can relate it to something we can understand better. I hope this helps you to understand what a mess our government has got us into. Thank you Mr Darling!!

How many zeros in a billion? This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the "politicians" 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 some perspective in one of it's releases.

A.
A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet..

E.
A billion Pounds ago was only 13 hours and 12 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.




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Cats owned: 2 lovely boys and a beautiful girl
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02-03-2010, 01:13 PM   #2

Re: A Billion Pounds!


That is brilliant!!!! Well done the person who came up with that comparison. Scary though :/



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02-03-2010, 05:47 PM   #3

Re: A Billion Pounds!


Very scarey.



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02-03-2010, 10:04 PM   #4

Re: A Billion Pounds!


Scary



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02-03-2010, 10:46 PM   #5

Re: A Billion Pounds!


Brilliant! One of our politicians one said, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money" .....!!!



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04-03-2010, 11:54 AM   #6

Re: A Billion Pounds!


amazing to think... and scary!



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