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Posted By: LDW

How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:15 PM

I heard on the radio the other day, if you were given 5000 dollars every day since Columbus stepped on this land, you still wouldn't have a billion. It would take another 20 years of 5000 a day. Those numbers are hard to fathom. Google says there are 607 billionaires in the USA alone. Why would someone need that much money?
Posted By: pcr2

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:18 PM

from here,........................................................................................................................................................................................to here.
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:18 PM

Nobody "needs" that kind of money. A lot of things we dont need but we want. Just look at any new gun thread on here.
Posted By: BigBob

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:27 PM

A Billion is 1,000 Million. I could live on that if I make a budget, and stick to it! LOL
Posted By: Monster Toms

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:29 PM

Spending $1000 a day it takes just under 3 years to spend a million dollars. same spending takes just under 3000 years to spend a billion!
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:30 PM

That's called capitalism.
Posted By: Hodagtrapper

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:32 PM

10 tons in 100 dollar bills!

Chris
Posted By: tlguy

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:32 PM

A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by BigBob
A Billion is 1,000 Million. I could live on that if I make a budget, and stick to it! LOL

Maybe
Posted By: Actor

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:38 PM

How many pallets on a C-5 does it take going to Iran?

Garry-
Posted By: Catch22

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by BigBob
A Billion is 1,000 Million. I could live on that if I make a budget, and stick to it! LOL

I'd buy a squirrel dog or(red panda) and some slim jim's.
Posted By: Grandpa Trapper

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:41 PM

And a Bill Gates has about 40 billion.
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:44 PM

Originally Posted by Grandpa Trapper
And a Bill Gates has about 40 billion.

That's a lot of red pandas and a lot of slim Jim's to feed them
Posted By: wetdog

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:47 PM

That's 50,000,000 mb 550s
Posted By: nt2

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:48 PM

Combine the admission money from last year and this years super bowl-about a billion. It holds about 65,000 and the average price stated for this year is $8500, so that is about 552 million for this year alone unless my math is bad.
Posted By: BigBob

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by Grandpa Trapper
And a Bill Gates has about 40 billion.

That's 40.000 Million! crazy
Posted By: walleyed

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:51 PM

This could help explain the phenomenon and

put It in perscective, laugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TmJw8j2Eos

w
Posted By: 3togo

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:53 PM

Bloomberg, Mr anti gun supposedly worth 58 billion. Think he can influence an election?
Posted By: star flakes

Re: How much is a billion - 01/30/20 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by LDW
I heard on the radio the other day, if you were given 5000 dollars every day since Columbus stepped on this land, you still wouldn't have a billion. It would take another 20 years of 5000 a day. Those numbers are hard to fathom. Google says there are 607 billionaires in the USA alone. Why would someone need that much money?


LOW this is your history, civics and economics lesson. In the 1960's children were taught to name the millionaires in the United States, because there were less than 10. It is not about needing money, but it is about how the Dollar once was based in gold and worth a dollar. When the conglomerates led by the Rockefellers and Rothschilds decided to pin the Dollar to Crude Oil, the dollar was deflated and inflation began. In 1970, you could purchase a Ford LTD for 1200 dollars. People lived well on 200 dollars a month in wages. Houses were 5000 dollars, land for farming was 200 dollars an acre.

Inflation which was debt spending and an increased money supply which made rich people richer, and the middle class poor by design as millions of people in the middle class was more powerful than the swindler few, was initiated by design for control. America is now a socialist state, as that means the government collects money, appropriates it to conglomerates, and rations life to the many. The majoriy can not afford anything. 10 years ago our small towns still had house for 15,000 dollars. Over night when the realtors got together, those houses were 85,000 dollars and people from California and Colorado were paying it to escape liberal states. Those houses are now sitting empty, because the local people can not afford them. Farmers were told their land was assessed at production values, and started as in the 1970's going into debt on those fake numbers. Grain prices fell, they have the debt, and in their welfare they drive new things the bank owns and still have the same massive debt.

The financiers had to in order to gain control of the American system, and to weaponize money, created inflation. The things Ronald Reagan tried to bring back to America was subverted by the Bush's Clintons and Obama. The Bush's cheapened money to loan it, so the rich got free money without interest. The Clintons sent union jobs overseas. Obama converted America to the conglomerate few to manage money as the Treasury was tapped to pump money into Wall Street for the rich. As a warning in this, the reason China has not been quarantined is because Chinese mules are laundering money into the United States illegally in franchise businesses and this flows to Wall Street.

The United States like most of the world is managed looting and is enforced by a police state which makes criminals out of the masses.

The reason you can not fathom what a billion is, is one reason they did it. It is like Hitler saying little people told little lies, and could not tell big lies. You could understand if Warren Buffett was stealing a thousand dollars from every American every day. You can not understand Warren Buffett looting investors, buying up American railroads which owned North Dakota lands, which had oil under them, and Buffett had all of these new rail cars to transport that oil, as Obama shut down Canadian oil, shut down the Gulf and refused to build a pipeline. Yes Green Obama, was part of an oil soaked scheme. It is the way this all works in environmentalists complain about fur or carbon and their scammers are the ones wiping out the wildlife and pumping the oil for profit.
The Dollar is worthless and deflated, that is why there are trillions of dollars missing from the US Treasury.
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 12:05 AM

Great..... now I feel poorer than 2 minutes ago
Posted By: Gulo

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 12:18 AM

I've not checked the math, nor have I accounted for leap years. However, I just pulled out my handy-dandy calculator and punched a few numbers. Since the day of my birth some 65 years ago, if I would have made $29.30 per minute for my whole life (and not spent it on whiskey, MB-750s, and ex-wives), I would now be a billionaire!

Jack
Posted By: Getting There

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by Monster Toms
Spending $1000 a day it takes just under 3 years to spend a million dollars. same spending takes just under 3000 years to spend a billion!

Originally Posted by Monster Toms
Spending $1000 a day it takes just under 3 years to spend a million dollars. same spending takes just under 3000 years to spend a billion!



So at that rate of spending, it would take Bloomberg 156,000 years to spend his 52 billion.
Posted By: Getting There

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Grandpa Trapper
And a Bill Gates has about 40 billion.


I have always said, I would like to build an item and make .10 on each item and put in every home in the U.S.. Bill Gates did but he gets about $300.00 to $500.00 for each item. LOL
Posted By: Law Dog

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by 3togo
Bloomberg, Mr anti gun supposedly worth 58 billion. Think he can influence an election?




The same guy that said you need to tax the poor to protect them from themselves. LOL Arrogant nut.
Posted By: 52Carl

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by Catch22
Originally Posted by BigBob
A Billion is 1,000 Million. I could live on that if I make a budget, and stick to it! LOL

I'd buy a squirrel dog or(red panda) and some slim jim's.

Are you talking the good slim jims, or the always stale gas station brand ones? You need to know this if you don't want to have to settle for the puppy mill variety red panda.
Posted By: Catch22

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 12:55 AM

The slim jim's are for me lol. I couldn't imagine having that kind of money!
Posted By: Canvasback2

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 01:07 AM

1 Billion dollars is equal to 22,500 Lbs.
Posted By: Hodagtrapper

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 01:17 AM

Originally Posted by Canvasback2
1 Billion dollars is equal to 22,500 Lbs.


In $100.00 bills!

Chris
Posted By: Mike in A-town

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by LDW
Why would someone need that much money?


Guess I'll be the evil capitalist...

Buffett, Gates, Trump, etc... Each billionaire has an estimated worth of X, or XX billion dollars. That "estimated worth" is what they could expect to raise if they liquidated all of their assets for cash. They don't have X or XX billion dollars stashed in a giant money bin like Scrooge McDuck.

Buffett for example. The guy owns (among other things) BNSF railway. Should he sell BNSF off piece by piece and donate all the proceeds to charity? That'd be great wouldn't it... Well, probably not for the 42,000 BNSF employees who make a good living working there.

And money isn't everything anyway... T. Boone Pickens donated enough money to Oklahoma State University that he probably had the right to say he owned the place... And them OSU Cowboys still ain't won a National Championship yet.

And none of them rich folk probably ever set a trap in their life... That's not living if you ask me. And if any of them ever took up trapping they wouldn't be billionaires for long anyway. grin

Mike
Posted By: Boco

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 01:57 AM

A billion dollars doesnt exist,its just a number punched into a banking computer with someones name beside it.
It wont be long before a loaf of bread will be worth a few thousand dollars.
Posted By: LDW

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 02:32 AM

Originally Posted by Mike in A-town
Originally Posted by LDW
Why would someone need that much money?


Guess I'll be the evil capitalist...

Buffett, Gates, Trump, etc... Each billionaire has an estimated worth of X, or XX billion dollars. That "estimated worth" is what they could expect to raise if they liquidated all of their assets for cash. They don't have X or XX billion dollars stashed in a giant money bin like Scrooge McDuck.

Buffett for example. The guy owns (among other things) BNSF railway. Should he sell BNSF off piece by piece and donate all the proceeds to charity? That'd be great wouldn't it... Well, probably not for the 42,000 BNSF employees who make a good living working there.

And money isn't everything anyway... T. Boone Pickens donated enough money to Oklahoma State University that he probably had the right to say he owned the place... And them OSU Cowboys still ain't won a National Championship yet.

And none of them rich folk probably ever set a trap in their life... That's not living if you ask me. And if any of them ever took up trapping they wouldn't be billionaires for long anyway. grin

Mike
I realize that they don't have a billion dollars in cash. However, they could raise the money if they wanted. You know when I roll up on a coyote in a trap, I often think to myself how many people get to see what we get to. How do you put a price on that?
Posted By: nightlife

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by star flakes
Originally Posted by LDW
I heard on the radio the other day, if you were given 5000 dollars every day since Columbus stepped on this land, you still wouldn't have a billion. It would take another 20 years of 5000 a day. Those numbers are hard to fathom. Google says there are 607 billionaires in the USA alone. Why would someone need that much money?


LOW this is your history, civics and economics lesson. In the 1960's children were taught to name the millionaires in the United States, because there were less than 10. It is not about needing money, but it is about how the Dollar once was based in gold and worth a dollar. When the conglomerates led by the Rockefellers and Rothschilds decided to pin the Dollar to Crude Oil, the dollar was deflated and inflation began. In 1970, you could purchase a Ford LTD for 1200 dollars. People lived well on 200 dollars a month in wages. Houses were 5000 dollars, land for farming was 200 dollars an acre.

Inflation which was debt spending and an increased money supply which made rich people richer, and the middle class poor by design as millions of people in the middle class was more powerful than the swindler few, was initiated by design for control. America is now a socialist state, as that means the government collects money, appropriates it to conglomerates, and rations life to the many. The majoriy can not afford anything. 10 years ago our small towns still had house for 15,000 dollars. Over night when the realtors got together, those houses were 85,000 dollars and people from California and Colorado were paying it to escape liberal states. Those houses are now sitting empty, because the local people can not afford them. Farmers were told their land was assessed at production values, and started as in the 1970's going into debt on those fake numbers. Grain prices fell, they have the debt, and in their welfare they drive new things the bank owns and still have the same massive debt.

The financiers had to in order to gain control of the American system, and to weaponize money, created inflation. The things Ronald Reagan tried to bring back to America was subverted by the Bush's Clintons and Obama. The Bush's cheapened money to loan it, so the rich got free money without interest. The Clintons sent union jobs overseas. Obama converted America to the conglomerate few to manage money as the Treasury was tapped to pump money into Wall Street for the rich. As a warning in this, the reason China has not been quarantined is because Chinese mules are laundering money into the United States illegally in franchise businesses and this flows to Wall Street.

The United States like most of the world is managed looting and is enforced by a police state which makes criminals out of the masses.

The reason you can not fathom what a billion is, is one reason they did it. It is like Hitler saying little people told little lies, and could not tell big lies. You could understand if Warren Buffett was stealing a thousand dollars from every American every day. You can not understand Warren Buffett looting investors, buying up American railroads which owned North Dakota lands, which had oil under them, and Buffett had all of these new rail cars to transport that oil, as Obama shut down Canadian oil, shut down the Gulf and refused to build a pipeline. Yes Green Obama, was part of an oil soaked scheme. It is the way this all works in environmentalists complain about fur or carbon and their scammers are the ones wiping out the wildlife and pumping the oil for profit.
The Dollar is worthless and deflated, that is why there are trillions of dollars missing from the US Treasury.


Sounds about right
Posted By: EdP

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 02:50 AM

I am 65 and do not have enough time left to learn how to live as a billionaire, nor do I want or need the stress of trying.
Posted By: danvee

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 02:57 AM

Well ponder this one we racked up in excess of a TRILLION dollar deficit this year that tax break was great. The wars in the middle east have cost us over 3 TRILLION. If America does not increase tax and decrease spending the fur market, the wall, employment numbers or impeachment will not even come up on the radar. I agree a billion is a lot I cant get my head around a trillion or the interest that we pay to China on that kind of money.
Posted By: Furvor

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 03:07 AM

A billion dollars is more than I ever made trapping.
Posted By: timbremn

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 03:12 AM

Ask [Linked Image]
the people of Zimbabwe how much a billion is...
Posted By: Pawnee

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 04:06 AM

Good one timbremn. So true
Posted By: FairbanksLS

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 04:26 AM


Not much if your economy has collapsed.
Posted By: pcr2

Re: How much is a billion - 01/31/20 05:26 AM

lots
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