Economies of Scale

I saw this this morning, and it did two things:

1) Made me do a double take,

and

2)Pissed me off.


What is one trillion?

It's 0ne thousand billion.

or

One million millions.

1,000,000,000,000

In one trillion seconds it will be the year 5179 (1,000,000,000,000/(60*60*24*365))=3170.9 + 2009= 5179.9.

In one trillion minutes it will be the year 1,904,596 (1,000,000,000,000/(60*24*365)) = 1,902,587.5 + 2009 = 1,904,596.5.


Now put that into cash?

And just for the sake of manageability, lets use $100 bills.

Can you imagine what one hundred billion $100 bills would look like?

Well quit wondering and see what it would look like.


In terms of the spending bill that we were lyingly told was a "stimulus," if the U.S. Government spent $1,000,000,000,000 in the next 4 years, it would be a spending spree of $7,922.02 every second for those four years (and yes, I included leap day in 2012).
And just think, in the 45 seconds it took you to read this post, the government spent $365,490.90.


Just some food for thought.