How much is a trillion dollars? (AKA-Stimulate This!)

I heard a commentator try to put the number 1,000,000,000,000 into perspective. We throw these numbers around so easily. What do they mean?

Here's one way to think about it. We could spend one million dollars every day since the day Jesus was born and we would still not have one trillion dollars. Do the math. Jesus was born about 2012 years ago. 2012 x 365.2 = 734,782.4. So if we spent one million dollars every day since the day Jesus was born, we'd have spent $734,782,400,000 or almost 735 billon dollars. The numbers we are dealing with are staggering. This is, of course, on top of what we have already spent in corporate bailouts and our oppressive debt left over from the last 40 years of overspending our budget.

Yikes.

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