Think about this, the next time you hear some Republican complaining about some
trivial amount of "government waste" - because, basically, anything measured in the
millions or below is just pocket change in the grand scheme of things.

Bernie Sanders wanted to implement free college for all.  Pretty much everyone else
laughs at this idea - including most Democrats.  They all assume that it would cost
way too much money.  But note this: Best estimates are that it would cost about $30
billion/year.  Well, that's a lot of money (at least to me, maybe not to Bill Gates
or the Koch brothers, but I digress).  But if we reduced the defense budget by 5%,
we'd have our $30 billion.  That it, just 5%.  Surely, we could do that if we wanted
to.  We may not want to, but we certainly could - and nothing bad would result from
doing so.

So, I'm proposing a new unit of measure.  If somebody complains about the government
spending, say, $13 million/year, remember that that's really just 0.0014% of the
defense budget (currently $900 billion/yr and always growing).  So, instead of saying
"13 million dollars", people will just say "0.0014%".  There, that's much better.