The word billion is simply too benign. It is a number that is just too hard to envision. 1 billion equals 1000 million. Most people have a good concept of $1 million but not of $1 billion. $40 billion equals 40,000 gifts of 1 million dollars each
Imagine a lottery with a total payoff of one billion dollars. One housand different people could each get one million dollars.
I saw a picture of a pallet of $1 billion, in $100 dollar bills. It is staggering. I would love to know how many TRILLIONS of dollars have been ripped off from American taxpayers.
To me, $1M doesn’t have the impact it used to. Heck, an fairly ordinary home up here is $1M....so $40M is peanuts when talking about funding a war (wink, wink, or paying extortion to a crooked bunch of oligarchs).
Imagine seeing the trillions of dollars in debt that’s been accumulated. I hope when President Trump returns that he erases a massive amount of the Chinese debt, just as a little “thank you” for the Wuhan virus.