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09-08-2009, 04:12 PM
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| Tire&Foam Extraordinaire   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: C.I. Compound, Tyler, Texas
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|  Federal Deficit Visualized... We need a bigger safe
What does one TRILLION dollars look like? With all this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"... A billion dollars... A hundred billion dollars... Eight hundred billion dollars... One TRILLION dollars... What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like. We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.  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. Go ahead... Scroll down... Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...  Notice those pallets are double stacked. ...and remember those are $100 bills. So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about. |
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09-08-2009, 04:34 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Columbia TN
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Thats awsome! Its hard to realize exactly what they are talking about when they use huge numbers like that.
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09-08-2009, 04:49 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: RAMBLIN
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ill take the smallest stack anyone wants to send me. hell ill even come pick it up. its surprising to visualize how much it really is.
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09-08-2009, 05:38 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: DeSoto
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In, thanks for the chance.
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09-08-2009, 06:14 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Saginaw
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That penny analogy really puts it in perspective.
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09-08-2009, 06:59 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Colorado springs
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tell me that aint the biggest joke of the century. it would be better if they cant spend more then they can carry better then this jeeze:?
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09-08-2009, 07:44 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cleveland, OH
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re-post.
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09-08-2009, 07:53 PM
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| 20K Club   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sending illegals home one Hayabusa at a time.
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Damn 174.......not quite sure what that says about me, I think I just barely have him beat.  |
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09-08-2009, 08:16 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: worley/boise as of aug 20
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thats good vids
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09-09-2009, 01:18 PM
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| 06 Super National Champ  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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It's a deficit...why do we need a safe for money we don't have?
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09-09-2009, 01:37 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: back where I belong
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this is more than fitting. lmao. | |
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09-10-2009, 09:15 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Cottontown
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Here is a visualization for ya... 1 trillion pennies, Thats $10,000,000,166.40 (ten billion, one hundred and sixty six dollars and forty cents)  Or, here is a good way to visualize 10 trillion dollars in pennies ( the little cube in between the empire state building and the washington monument is 1 trillion pennies)  |
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09-10-2009, 09:43 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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nice visuals. Something I can put into perspective
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09-10-2009, 04:21 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Naples
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Cha-ching! Thanks for the visual perspective, now we see why were being told to stock up on food, ammo and other essential supplies, the chit is already in the fan.
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