That's possibly because he knows that, despite the sneaky way the government has done it, we've dumped more hallucinatory pounds into our banks than America has dollars into hers.
My count is that my taxes are something like £550B in the hole as of today. Yes, that's pounds, not dollars.
If I believed in God, I'd be praying right now.
The way I always try to put these Monopoly Money numbers into perspective (and the look on peoples faces is a picture) is to compare the money dished out to population levels. Britains head-count is about 60M at present - does anyone believe that anyone would be feeling any hardship or credit crunch if the government were to give each person an equal share of that handout (bearing in mind that 'our' billions are a million million rather than a thousand million like America and so everyone would get about £9M)?
Note: Could be that these days we use American billions in finance; I honestly don't know.
My count is that my taxes are something like £550B in the hole as of today. Yes, that's pounds, not dollars.
If I believed in God, I'd be praying right now.
The way I always try to put these Monopoly Money numbers into perspective (and the look on peoples faces is a picture) is to compare the money dished out to population levels. Britains head-count is about 60M at present - does anyone believe that anyone would be feeling any hardship or credit crunch if the government were to give each person an equal share of that handout (bearing in mind that 'our' billions are a million million rather than a thousand million like America and so everyone would get about £9M)?
Note: Could be that these days we use American billions in finance; I honestly don't know.
:lol:
