OK. Most of us, by now, are completely numb to the whole economic stimulus banter, as well as all the figures being tossed about with respect to the bailout. I must admit it has become tiresome.
But, maybe this will awake you from your media-induced slumber.
Let's take a million seconds (as in time). How far will one million seconds take us? You have a guess?
The answer is 11.57 days - a little more than a week and a half.
In terms of minutes, one million minutes is a little more than 694 days, or not quite two years.
That's one million.
Now, let's consider a billion.
One billion seconds is more than 11,574 days. That's 31.71 years.
Sobering, isn't it?
A million bucks is a lot of money. We'd all be quite happy to have a million bucks in the old bank account.
It certainly puts our economy in a completely different light when we are tossing around figures like $85 billion like it's chump change.
Yikes!
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