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A Million, Billion, Trillion Dollars!
Caffeinated Thoughts ^

Posted on 01/28/2011 11:26:31 AM PST by bigjoesaddle

People have a difficulty conceptualizing a trillion dollars. Here are some stats and visuals to help. Please memorize at least ONE of these to share with friends. The United States is 14 Trillion+ in debt.

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is...

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: debt

1 posted on 01/28/2011 11:26:34 AM PST by bigjoesaddle
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To: bigjoesaddle

Million dollar babies
Billion dollar babies
Trillion dollar babies
Zillion dollar babies

- Alice Cooper


2 posted on 01/28/2011 11:28:06 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: bigjoesaddle

The fingernail on the index finger of my right hand is 3/5” long.


3 posted on 01/28/2011 11:29:11 AM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: bigjoesaddle

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years.
A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.


4 posted on 01/28/2011 11:31:44 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, in honor of Standing Wolf.)
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To: bigjoesaddle
A trillion dollars, in one hundred dollar bills.


5 posted on 01/28/2011 11:34:05 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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To: USS Alaska

Like math matters to libtards....LOL


6 posted on 01/28/2011 11:35:45 AM PST by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER from my house....)
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To: bigjoesaddle

Great perspective. Thanks for posting.


7 posted on 01/28/2011 11:51:25 AM PST by Starboard
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To: bigjoesaddle

Careful! The blog pimp patrol is going to come after you!


8 posted on 01/28/2011 11:53:46 AM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: bigjoesaddle

All politicians know a Trillion dollars is only this long.
$1,000,000,000,000.00


9 posted on 01/28/2011 12:08:00 PM PST by ALinArleta (One shot! One kill!)
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To: bigjoesaddle

If you had a trillion dollars when Christ was born, you could have spent a million dollars PER DAY, every day, and be just short of three-quarters of the way through your money by now.


10 posted on 01/28/2011 12:25:35 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Bookmark


11 posted on 01/28/2011 3:50:14 PM PST by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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