Its only a Trillion?! (economic stimulus package)

[2WheelGnnr]

Putting it all in perspective?~

The economic stimulus package estimated to cost over one trillion dollars. Here are some analogies that express the absurdity of the current situation in the United States.



First - the maths:

1 (one)

10 (ten)

100 (one hundred)

1,000 (one thousand)

10,000 (ten thousand)

100,000 (hundred thousand)

1,000,000 (one million)

10,000,000 (ten million)

100,000,000 (hundred million)

1,000,000,000 (one billion)

10,000,000,000 (ten billion)

100,000,000,000 (hundred billion)

1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion)



Now the analogies:

First analogy: If someone spent one million dollars per day each and every day since Jesus was born, it would take another 719 years (beyond today) before one trillion dollars was spent.

$1,000,000,000,000 / $1,000,000 per day = one million days

one million days / 365 = 2740 years

2740 - 2021 = 719 (years remaining)



Second analogy looks at a million, a billion, and a trillion in terms of seconds. One million seconds comes out to be about 11½ days. A billion seconds is 32 years. And a trillion seconds is 32,000 years!



The third analogy puts dollar bills end to end. If you laid one dollar bills end to end, one trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills!



But the last analogy is the one that absolutely blows my mind. If you took freshly minted brand new $1,000 dollar bills and starting stacking them one on top of another, it would take a stack over 68 miles high to reach one trillion dollars!



It’s only a Trillion

 

[meketrefe]

We should raise the minimum wage to 1T.
After all, it is just money!

 

[FS1040]

And our national debt isn’t $28T. It’s well over $50T

 

[libertysnake]

Putting it all in perspective?~

The economic stimulus package estimated to cost over one trillion dollars. Here are some analogies that express the absurdity of the current situation in the United States.



First - the maths:

1 (one)

10 (ten)

100 (one hundred)

1,000 (one thousand)

10,000 (ten thousand)

100,000 (hundred thousand)

1,000,000 (one million)

10,000,000 (ten million)

100,000,000 (hundred million)

1,000,000,000 (one billion)

10,000,000,000 (ten billion)

100,000,000,000 (hundred billion)

1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion)



Now the analogies:

First analogy: If someone spent one million dollars per day each and every day since Jesus was born, it would take another 719 years (beyond today) before one trillion dollars was spent.

$1,000,000,000,000 / $1,000,000 per day = one million days

one million days / 365 = 2740 years

2740 - 2021 = 719 (years remaining)



Second analogy looks at a million, a billion, and a trillion in terms of seconds. One million seconds comes out to be about 11½ days. A billion seconds is 32 years. And a trillion seconds is 32,000 years!



The third analogy puts dollar bills end to end. If you laid one dollar bills end to end, one trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills!



But the last analogy is the one that absolutely blows my mind. If you took freshly minted brand new $1,000 dollar bills and starting stacking them one on top of another, it would take a stack over 68 miles high to reach one trillion dollars!



It’s only a Trillion

At the rate they're printing, I'm going to start buying wheel barrel now so I can pay for groceries somehow later.

 

[SonOfSun]

Zimbabwe has 100 Trillion dollar bills.

 

[spat]

Zimbabwe has 100 Trillion dollar bills.

At the rate we're going we will soon too.

 

[Saltwater60]

They don’t only want to spend a trillion it’s more like 4.5-5 trillion. Also we know it’s always over budget.

 

[repete]

The saddest part about all this is that we are leaving this mess for our children and grandchildren to deal with. Who's going to suffer the most? People like you and me or the rich politicians that have solid investments in real estate and stuff like that. They are fucking us and overall we are to stupid to know it!