Danny B

http://www.iht.com/articles/123414.html

$8.8 Trillion apparently

Of course, a billion dollars is a drop in the bucket for the US government. The US budget (for one year) is well over a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) dollars (a trillion is called a billion outside the USA, for logical reasons).

Addendum:

Let's count to a billion. But first, let's see how long that will take. I can count pretty fast for a while. I mumble a little, like "sev-sen" for "seventy-seven." After a while (in the 100,000's), it takes me a lot longer than a second for each number. If it takes me a second for each number, then it would take me about 24 hours to count to 86,400. I can count to a million in less than half a month. It will take me more than three years to count to an American billion, and more than 3000 years to count to a British billion.

And yes I am bored