All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.
A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.
Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.
While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...
And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...
Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
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Now thats a heart attack
ReplyDeleteand they have just spent how many of these? 3?....4? with interest 5? 6?
ReplyDeleteand they have chained us ALL {including the next 3 generations}to this debt
Anon 1:08 yep! and more spending to come with the talk of another "stimulus" spending bill being talked about by Nancy Pelosi. The ink hasn't even dried on the last 2 from them.
ReplyDeleteIt would be nice to see a graphic showing relative height, like, is a trillion dollars (in $100 million pallettes) as tall as an 8-story building? A 20 story building? Someone get on this.
ReplyDeleteI had somewhere before that its miles tall not stories tall.
ReplyDeletehow many old jars would it take to bury that in my yard?
ReplyDeletejust announced on the news....the proposal of 1 world currency....here comes the yen
ReplyDeleteOne world currency will never happen...and if it comes down to 3 currencies, it'll be the Euro, the yen and whatever China uses-chickens??? We could be ok here on the shore, hmmm
ReplyDeleteBring back the $1000 bill !!
ReplyDeleteThat will make the stack smaller.