To: rodguy911
go around the world redistributing untold trillions that will never be paid back and will collapse the dollar.
It took a long time for 'officials'/media to every start using the B-word with regard to government spending. It is taking a long time for 'officials'/media to use the T-word with regard to government spending.
B-word = Billion, when referring to government spending. T-word = Trillion, when referring to government spending.
The numbers for either are so astronomically large that most of the people have no real concept of what a Billion or a Trillion is.
78 posted on
12/12/2010 7:05:10 AM PST by
TomGuy
To: TomGuy
Billions and Trillions were at one time just abstract numbers.
79 posted on
12/12/2010 7:08:30 AM PST by
Clyde5445
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To: TomGuy
Numbers have power because most people just hear them emotionally. One trillion sounds like one billion or even one million to too many people. One thousand billion or nine hundred ninety nine billion would be much more powerful and so the *large* numbers are avoided.
Look how the new extension of unemployment checks is known as “13 months” rather than “56 weeks.” Thirteen is much less threatening than fifty-six.
85 posted on
12/12/2010 7:15:46 AM PST by
maica
To: TomGuy
Exactly right Tom, numbers like this, when spent, have no other job to do than destroy a currency. Can you say George Soros?
87 posted on
12/12/2010 7:16:44 AM PST by
rodguy911
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