7K+ Years to Count Teachers' Salaries and Benefits Value

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7K+ Years to Count Teachers' Salaries and Benefits Value

At the rate of counting one dollar per second, it would take more than 7,000 years to count the $225 billion of salaries and benefits paid by local, state, and Federal funds to U.S. public school teachers in a year.

It would take more than 24,000 years to count the estimated cost $829 billion of the Baucus health bill just voted out of the U.S. Senate committee he chairs. That's longer than there have been human civilizations on earth.

Wow! That's a different perspective from the ones I've...

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