The Stimulus: More Than a Million a Day Since Jesus Christ's Birth

NRO ^ | February 04, 2009 | Jim Geraghty

[IYAS9YAS]

Okay. I was looking at total leap days. I just took 2008 times 365 plus 487 leap days (divisible by 4, but years divisible by 100 don't count, unless they are also divisible by 400 - so 2,000 counts, but 1,900 doesn't). Then I added the 35 days we've had so far this year. Works out to 733,442 total days. Not including year 0. Which, I think most places cite that we went from 1 BC to AD 1 and there was no year zero - which is why the year 2001 was the actual true beginning of the new millenium.

Can you tell I'm an accountant?

[SoldierDad]

Actually, I didn’t follow a single thing you wrote. My way was much easier.

[lacrew]

Let’s see:

Christ was born in 1961...so lets see (48 years x 365.25 days/year x 24 hrs/day x 1 million) comes to 421 billion.

Conclusion: a million dollars, every HOUR since Christ’s birth, and its less than half of the stimulus...

....oh, thaaat Jesus. My bad

[IYAS9YAS]

Actually, I didn’t follow a single thing you wrote. My way was much easier.

LOL. Thanks for that!

[Impy]

“To give the proposed economic stimulus plan some perspective, “if you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion.””

:/