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**CULTDIAMONDS** · 07-05-2011, 06:31 AM

Just a side note here...

Your math is a bit off on the "trillion dollars" part.

1 Trillion = 1,000 Billion

If we assume Christ was born 2,011 years ago, then that means $1 trillion = spending a bit less than $1 billion every two years since the birth of Christ.

They're apparently using the European Trillion, which is a million billions instead of a thousand. It's a common conservative trick as it's not used in finacial calculations. The only people I know of who do, in fact, are nuclear physicists figuring electron volts and conservative pols when STATING, (but not calculating) the various debts they say we owe.

07-05-2011, 06:31 AM	#12
CULTDIAMONDS Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	Just a side note here... Your math is a bit off on the "trillion dollars" part. 1 Trillion = 1,000 Billion If we assume Christ was born 2,011 years ago, then that means $1 trillion = spending a bit less than $1 billion every two years since the birth of Christ. They're apparently using the European Trillion, which is a million billions instead of a thousand. It's a common conservative trick as it's not used in finacial calculations. The only people I know of who do, in fact, are nuclear physicists figuring electron volts and conservative pols when STATING, (but not calculating) the various debts they say we owe.
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