What's A Trillion Dollars Look Like? If We're Going To Waste It, We Ought To Know.

So What's a Trillion to ya?

Well, here's what One page tells us a $Trillion Dollars Looks Like.

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.

(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)

So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase “trillion dollars”… that’s what they’re talking about.

Congress is yammering about throwing $1 Trillion More into an already Malfunctioning Healthcare System as "Reform", ...... to "Hold Down The Costs", through buying More, of the Same Malfunction we have now.

And the Real cost may well greatly exceed $1 Trillion, over the next 10 years, as we Further degrade our Healthcare through emulating Systems like the French have.

Health Care Bill Would Actually Cost 4 Trillion

Phillip Klein on American Spectator clears up some numbers for us by reporting this:


Health Systems Innovations Network, a consulting group, went ahead and estimated the full cost of a bill that included the subsidies and Medicaid expansion, and reduced the number of uninsured by 99 percent. With these assumptions, they estimated the cost at a staggering $4 trillion over 10 years, resulting in the shift of 79 million Americans to government-run health care. The report does not include possible tax increases or spending offsets, but notes that, "this would be a challenging proposal to finance with budget neutrality.

See full article here.

To help put this in perspective, let's consider what 1 trillion looks like.

A stack of one trillion one-dollar bills would reach 68,000 miles into space. If you spent $1 million dollars a day from the day Jesus was born until now, you would only have spent about three quarters of a trillion. If you laid one trillion one-dollar bills end to end, it would make a chain from the earth to the moon 200 times. One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, four years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills. A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion seconds is 32,000 years.

Now multiply this by 4. Kill this bill.