#shorts On 7/11/2023, during senate Appropriations hearing about insulin, Senator Kennedy asked, “let me ask you a quick question. You probably don’t know the answer. I had to look it up, but if I started counting to a billion right now, right this moment in 2023, and I counted, y’all listen to this, you may know the answer. I counted one number a second. One, two, three, four, five. And I counted all day and all night, and I counted in the shower, and I counted between bites of a Pop Tart at breakfast. I keep counting and counting. How long do you think it’d take me to count to a billion?

Witness: A very long time.

Kennedy: Right! I told you you were smart. It would take me 30 to years for one billion. I’d be 55. It would be 2055. I wouldn’t make it. Now you know how big the federal budget is. That’s just one billion, folks. The federal budget is six thousand billion dollars every year, and we can’t find 200 and 250 million to cap the price of insulin. Let’s do it right. No more yada yada. [Applause]

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/besUOZFL4Qs
Q: count one number a second, how long to count to a billion? Federal budget is $6000B