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 dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

NOW THIS IS INDISPUTABLE!!! NO MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICAL LEANINGS.

Quoted by: Ross Greenwood of Money News

It used to be a million millions, now it's apparently a thousand millions.  Is that inflation??????