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What I said was millions are nothing. In the global picture, millions are pretty much nothing. I get it that all those numbers sound the same, billions, millions, trillions, other than that though, they not at similar at all.
The late senator Everett Dirksen was once quoted from a Congressional hearing as saying "A billion here, a billion there... pretty soon you are talking about REAL money."
When you are talking about a retiree like me, a million bucks would have been a damned good retirement investment base, but I didn't quite reach that level. I'm not hurting but I have to be extra careful. So when dismissing a particular dollar amount, unless we are talking about money to the right of the decimal point, there are folks out there who would LOVE to have any amount.