How Much Is A Billion?

How about a little LESS SPENDING???

In the USA, a BILLION is a thousand million, or 1,000,000,000. In England, it's a million million or 1,000,000,000,000. Americans define this second figure as a trillion. Using the American system for a billion:

• If we wanted to pay down a billion dollars of the US debt, paying one dollar a second, it would take 31 years, 259 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds.
• To pay off a trillion dollars of debt, at a dollar a second, would take about 32,000 years.
  About a billion minutes ago, the Roman Empire was in full swing. (One billion minutes is about 1,900 years.)
• About a billion hours ago, we were living in the Stone Age. (One billion hours is about 114,000 years.)
• About a billion months ago, dinosaurs walked the earth. (One billion months is about 82 million years.)
• A billion inches is 15,783 miles, more than halfway around the earth (circumference).
  The earth is about 8,000 miles wide (diameter), and the sun is about 800,000 miles wide, not quite a million.

attributed to: http://uspolitics.about.com/od/politicaljunkies/l/bl_how_much_billion.htm

According to the U.S. National Debt Clock, the National debt has been increasing by $3.89 billion per day since September 28, 2007!

attributed to: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/