The G20 meeting for 2010 is over and we’re two billion dollars lighter. That’s a difficult sum to comprehend, but help is at hand. As a correspondent put it: ‘A billion seconds ago was 1959; a billion minutes ago Jesus walked on water; a billion hours ago our ancestors were in the stone age; a billion days ago no one walked on two feet.’ Two billion dollars ago was less than a week ago at the rate our government is spending our money.
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