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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (290068)1/29/2009 3:14:10 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793896
 
can't get their head around a trillion dollars. The only way I can visualize that number, is first think in relation to your own savings...then visualize a million or two... Or trying to get to that number, and how long it takes to save that much.

Then visualize
>>>One Hundred Million Dollars, then
<<<One Thousand Million Dollars, then you come to a
>>>Million Million Dollars....

Heh...or is that last a Zillion Dollars...???

Don't worry. Congress isn't either. NONE of them can visualize One Trillion Dollars.

They are too busy posing in front of cameras, telling us and the world how great they are.

Bah Humbug.



To: Bald Eagle who wrote (290068)2/5/2009 11:28:50 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 793896
 
Most people (including me) can't get their head around a trillion dollars.

Its the wealth of a million millionaires.

Or you could look at it as about $3000 for each American.

Almost as much as the dollar value (by exchange rates, not purchasing power parity) of every single market or government good or service produced by over 1.1 billion people in India for a whole year.

Or imagine handing out a dollar a second for over 31,000 years...


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