What is a Billion?
Republicans who have increased our national debt with their deficit spending by 50% to date, are going to vote to raise the debt limit ceiling another $781 Billion Dollars. Some, if not many, Democrats are voting right along with them. 781 Billion dollars. Big number: but, most folks don't appreciate how big.
So how big is one billion? Well, 1 Billion seconds ago, the War in Viet Nam was ending in 1975.
781 billion seconds ago would put us back to 6,585 B.C., pretty much the dawn of civilization.
