I don’t even know where to start. I’m kind of lost. Let’s see. One billion hours is equivalent to roughly 115,000 years and it would take you 3 million years to live a billion days. That didn’t help.
Ok, let’s try this. Our planet is in the ballpark of 4.5 billion years old while the Universe itself comes in around 14 billion years. 14 billion years since the Big Bang. Nope. That didn’t help all that much either. Astronomical doesn’t even touch it.
There are only 6.8 billion people on earth.
How does one make the incomprehensible clear and coherent? Can the unfathomable ever be explained?
Today, when the Congressional Budget Office handed Speaker Pelosi and President Obama the check for the health care bill, some on Capitol Hill and across the country, applauded the 940 billion dollar price tag. Other politicians and pundits boasted that the CBO calculated the costs at under “a trillion dollars.”
Clearly there is not enough time in all of human, planetary and universal history to match, one for one, unit for unit, the cost of this “historic” vote.
I’m not sure I will ever truly comprehend 940,000,000,000 dollars; I guess I do have something in common with the President.
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CBO Returns with Astronomical Health Care Costs
I don’t even know where to start. I’m kind of lost. Let’s see. One billion hours is equivalent to roughly 115,000 years and it would take you 3 million years to live a billion days. That didn’t help.
Ok, let’s try this. Our planet is in the ballpark of 4.5 billion years old while the Universe itself comes in around 14 billion years. 14 billion years since the Big Bang. Nope. That didn’t help all that much either. Astronomical doesn’t even touch it.
There are only 6.8 billion people on earth.
How does one make the incomprehensible clear and coherent? Can the unfathomable ever be explained?
Today, when the Congressional Budget Office handed Speaker Pelosi and President Obama the check for the health care bill, some on Capitol Hill and across the country, applauded the 940 billion dollar price tag. Other politicians and pundits boasted that the CBO calculated the costs at under “a trillion dollars.”
Clearly there is not enough time in all of human, planetary and universal history to match, one for one, unit for unit, the cost of this “historic” vote.
I’m not sure I will ever truly comprehend 940,000,000,000 dollars; I guess I do have something in common with the President.
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