By Burt Prelutsky
Speaking of trillions of dollars, Bob Marcks, in a letter to the Wall Street Journal, clarified the issue for people who are easily confused when numbers go beyond hundreds and thousands. One million seconds, he pointed out, is approximately 11.5 days. One billion seconds, on the other hand, is about 32 years, and one trillion seconds is more than 30,000 years!
Obama has raised the national debt by about four trillion dollars in just two years, and the Democrats think that’s fine and dandy. But they start screaming when the Republicans talk about cutting federal spending by, say, 500 billion dollars by 2020. But if you think of it not in dollars, but in years, it’s much easier to get a handle on the enormity of the numbers that promise to bury this country. Using this other measurement, as provided by Mr. Marcks, it would mean that while Obama added 120,000 years just since early 2009, the Democrats have a hissy fit when the GOP suggests reducing that total by a scant 15,000 years over the entire next decade.
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