Whats A Million.

In our world the word millions has become desensitized (to make somebody less responsive to an overwhelming fear by repeated exposure to the feared situation or object,either in natural or artificial circumstances) to the point it is not given thought.
Winning the Million Dollar Lottery, sports figures who sign million dollar contracts, million dollar construction projects, million dollar this, million dollar that, a million dollars just doesn't faze us anymore.
Now with the bailout billions has become the normal word, what does a billion dollars look like written out? $1,000,000,000.
Throwing around the word billion is becoming normal.
Bailout money has gone to;
AIG= $40,000,000,000 (40 Billion Dollars)
JPMorgan= $25,000,000,000 (25 Billion Dollars)
Citigroup= $25,000,000,000 (25 Billion Dollars)
Wells Fargo= $25,000,000,000 (25 Billion Dollars)
General Electric (finance unit)= $139,000,000,000 (139 Billion Dollars)
The list goes on and on, we have been hearing billions so often we don't even flinch.
The stimulus plan is going to cost the minimum $700,000,000,000 (700 Billion Dollars) and if you buy that I have ocean front property in Arizona I will let you have cheap.
We are heading onto paths we have never been on before. Where is all this money coming from? We say us, today's generation. Not so! It's going to be payed for by our children, our grand children, their children and their grand children.
What a mess we are leaving for future generations, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
We can try and throw everybody else under the bus, we can point the finger, we can blame the politicians but as we lay down for the night, one last look in the mirror and we can see where the real blame is.