How much is a trillion dollars???

[FlamingoBlue]

If you read about the U.S. Budget or the deficit, you hear figures thrown around in the trillions of dollars. I have no concept how much that is. Do you?

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[Ambrosious]

A lot?

 

[Ambrosious]

A whole lot?

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

don't know can't count that high

 

[Flagg]

Funny how 12 zeroes can add up to so much.

 

[CreamyLady]

I was listening to a song in which it was stated that a billion dollars would fill the Astrodome with Good and Plenty candy. I have no idea if there is a structure that could be filled with a trillion dollars worth of Good and Plenty.

Of course, in the same song it was also stated that a billion dollars would keep Ariana Huffington for five or six years. Somehow, I sense faulty economics.

 

[Guru]

 

[Todd]

not enough?

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I know how much that is........

that is regarding US surplus dollars.....

It's..........

$2,422. 67......

For each living, tax-paying US cit over the age of 18.

Man! I'm incredible!

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

And that's.....

Pre-tax, of course.

 

[FlamingoBlue]

So after tax, that's about $12.00???

I know what I,m gonna do with my piece of the pie. I'm gonna donate itto y favorite charity, public radio and tv. Did you see where "W" is cutting programs. All the stuff the Donkeys support are going by the wayside. And I bet that ketchup will be a vegetable again.

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