What’s a billion dollars? Can a person adequately conceptualize it? Sure, it's a thousand million. It’s like what, thirty big yachts? Who here knows what a yacht costs? Or I could build like, uh, thirty schools? I dunno, man, after a certain point, numbers to a layman are just that, numbers. A quote which is misattributed to Joseph Stalin comes from the French newspaper ‘Comic-Finance’: 

“War? It’s not that terrible! The death of one man is, indeed, a terrible thing, but one hundred-thousand deaths is a statistic.” (1924) 

For more than two years, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen did not make or take a single call on his cellphone while on the clock as the state’s chief executive — at least none that there is any record of, according to his office’s top attorney.

After the Flatwater Free Press filed a public records request for call logs from Pillen’s cellphone dating back to September 2023, the governor’s general counsel said no such records exist.