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A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money.

1 posted on 05/07/2011 5:01:57 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin

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2 posted on 05/07/2011 5:05:58 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)

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At One million dollars a DAY and counting backwards, you would be at $770 Billion around the Birth of Christ.

You don’t hit $1 Trillion until you get to the Battle of Thermopylae.

3 posted on 05/07/2011 5:06:28 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)

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What does 14 trillion look like?

“looks like we are screwed”

4 posted on 05/07/2011 5:08:26 PM PDT by mylife

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...soon you're NOT talking real money.

In more ways than one.

When we Zimbabwe ourselves to the point that a candy bar costs 1 trillion.

5 posted on 05/07/2011 5:08:59 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)

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6 posted on 05/07/2011 5:10:12 PM PDT by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)

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... I give you $1 trillion dollars...

I'll hold you to that!

7 posted on 05/07/2011 5:11:04 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)

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The Republican GOP controls the House and the pursestrings. For them to complain about Obama and Reid is disgusting and telling. All spending is their responsibility now. Do not give them a break.

8 posted on 05/07/2011 5:11:21 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)

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9 posted on 05/07/2011 5:16:29 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)

To: DeaconBenjamin

How about something a little larger.

11 posted on 05/07/2011 5:19:06 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)

To: DeaconBenjamin

It isn't rel money, it's fiat money.

Someone once said that all paper money returns to it's intrinsic value, zero.

14 posted on 05/07/2011 5:28:30 PM PDT by stockpirate (If they vote for socialism, support socialists, they're socialists duh....Ich bin ein Paliner)

To: DeaconBenjamin

It's not real, because:

1. For the average person, the concept of having $1 trillion is so unfathomable, they cannot relate and the numbers are irrelevant.

For the average politician, it's someone else's money, so the numbers are irrelevant for them as well.

16 posted on 05/07/2011 5:29:31 PM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)

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It looks like 20% unemployment

21 posted on 05/07/2011 5:40:06 PM PDT by Carley (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. W, 9/20/01)

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23 posted on 05/07/2011 5:42:09 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)

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24 posted on 05/07/2011 5:48:52 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer

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Joe Queenan in today's WSJ: (excerpts) (NOTE to the satirically challenged: Joe Queenan is a humorist.)

You can imagine my surprise when the latest economic data came out and we were told that inflation wasn't much of a problem at all. The price index for core personal consumption expenditures increased a piddling 0.9% from the previous year, keeping the national inflation rate far, far below what economists see as the danger level. [...] Question: Who gets to decide what gets left out of this or that index? Has anyone ever examined the backgrounds and body shapes and psychological profiles of the men and women who compile the personal consumption expenditures index? No! Or at least not until I did. Last week, I traveled the length and breadth of this country visiting with these persnickety bureaucrats, and I have something very interesting to report. With one notable exception—a really fat guy in Kansas City—the folks who devise the PCE are skinny nerds who eat a lot of salad and never dine out. [...] These index-makers don't drink coffee, tea, milk, Dos Equis or schnapps and they either walk to work or bike or ride scooters. They also hitchhike a lot. Some of them sleep for weeks at a time on cots in their offices.
All this may explain why economists are so willing to throw food and energy prices out of the PCE index as if they didn't matter. People who use pogo sticks to get to work, where they eat tuna-fish sandwiches their mommies made for them…. Well, maybe these aren't the kinds of people who should be calibrating the economic health of the nation.

26 posted on 05/07/2011 5:58:28 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)

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Who cares what a trillion dollars looks like. Check out my Skittle $hitting Unicorn!

29 posted on 05/07/2011 6:12:12 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)

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33 posted on 05/07/2011 6:19:17 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)

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Remember in the original Maverick shows, Bret and Bart (Jim Garner and Jack Kelly) each pinned a $1,000 bill to the inside of their jacket in case of an emergency?

36 posted on 05/07/2011 6:33:25 PM PDT by Rona Badger (Heeds the Calling Wind)

Pretty soon they’ll be using scientific notation when discussing the budget, deficits, and the national debt.

Mark

37 posted on 05/07/2011 6:33:51 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)

To: DeaconBenjamin

2014: I'm here to buy 10 eggs please.

38 posted on 05/07/2011 6:52:17 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (Lost your job as a birther under Obama? Become a 'deather'! Where's Bin Laden's death certificate?)

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