Friends Of STAR

What is RM20 trillions? Well, it is 20 followed by twelve zeros. To make it simple, it is 20 million millions or it is twenty thousand billions. To give you an example, if you spend about RM1,000,000 per day, it will take you more than 50,000 years to finish that much money. That's a pretty long time. Another example, if you lay one ringgit bill end to end  to the moon and back again it will be 4,000 times before you run out of bill.

For comparison, a million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 32 years and a trillion seconds is 32,000 years.

Malaysian government revenues are estimated at about RM150 billion per year - that is RM850 billions short of 1 trillion. If the government doesn't spend a single sen of these revenues it will still take them a long, long time to tally up to RM20 trillions, maybe more than 100 years.

That RM20 trillions is even bigger than the Malaysian GDP which is probably about RM700 billions. If you convert it to US dollars that RM20 trillions will be around US$6.5 trillions or slightly more than 40% of US GDP of around US$14 trillions. Since US GDP is equivalent to about a quarter of of the world's GDP, US6.5 trillions or RM20 trillions is about 12% of the world's total GDP. No other country has a bigger GDP than US6 trillions. China the second biggest economy has a GDP of slightly less than US$6 trillions.

And what about the world's richest man? The world's richest man (or second richest man if you consider this RM20 trillions man as the richest) is believed to be this Mexican-Arab called Salim Helu or Slim Helu who is worth slightly more than US$70 billions. That's not even 1 trillion.

What can you you buy with RM20 trillions? How about buying an aircraft carrier - that's the most expensive thing I can think of. It costs about US6 billions a piece (plus all the aircrafts you need) and the US is believed to operate about 10 or twelve aircraft carriers. Buy twenty of those and it won't dent that RM20 trillions - and add about US600 billions as war chest (US$600 billions is my estimate of US defense budget) and you can conquer the whole of Middle-East with all its oil. Use three of the aircraft carriers to block Hormuz Straits, I can guarantee the world's oil will shoot to US200 a barrel overnight. And there will be trillions more coming in after that. 

Or for the local scene. How about building a new school for Sekolah Alam Shah? The playing field is horibble and worse they have only one compared to multiple fields in STAR, MCKK and RMC. Since its small why not rebuild it in a bigger area somewhere around Putrajaya. Say on a 100 acres site - the land will cost about RM20 millions on the higher side and the building(s) maybe about RM600 millions for fully air-conditioned classes and hostels. That's not even RM1 billion. OK, how about spending more of that trillions. Let them eat steak instead of cincaru. This costs about RM100 a student a day and at 500 students it won't even cost RM20 millions a year. OK give them pocket money of RM1,000 for each student every month, and you add another RM6 millions. That won't make a dent on that RM20 trillions.

Hail to the emperor, king of all kings and richest of them all. And please help me, my other car is in a workshop and I need RM4,000 to bring it out.