Monday, March 30, 2009

Time to pay off our debts

Suppose you are a junior Treasury official charged with actually making the real arrangements to pay off our national debt

You do it by doling out £1 coins at the rate of 1 per second

If you had started at midnight on Saturday, working round the clock, you could pay off £1 million in time to go off for this year’s Easter break, starting with the ½ day privilege holiday on Maundy Thursday afternoon

£1 billion might mean delaying your retirement until Easter 2041

If you have to pay off £1 trillion, & time’s arrow goes into reverse, you could celebrate completion by going to see the new paintings at the Chauvet Cave


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