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bound Route 211 equals $16 million (the county’s budget).
A half-mile of chock-ablock briefcases, standing up across two lanes on eastbound Lee Highway, is $96.5 billion. Call it $100 billion. Your odometer can’t tell the difference.
Some more numbers: The 100 largest U.S. corporate pension plans are behind by $157 billion. That’s a little over 3/4 of a mile of milliondollar briefcases on Route 211. This year’s U.S. budget deficit may be $400 billion— two miles. This next one gets me. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners estimates the cost of corporate fraud is $600 billion a year—three miles.
Forbes magazine says the collective net worth of 476 billionaires is $1.4 trillion. Trillion? Good thing
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