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I’m still trying to get used to the word “quadrillion.” ;-)

I am still trying to wrap my head around this one:

"...if we started spending $1 Million the day Jesus Christ was born, and spent $1 Million every day since then, we still would have not spent $1 Trillion!"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2178687/posts

I’ve seen something like that before.
The numbers they are throwing around (and dollars they are wasting)
is really quite phenomenal when put in perspective.

Personally, I think this one deserves consideration: If you had a measly 1 billion dollars and never received any interest on it, you could spend one million dollars per year for 1000 years before you ran out of money. The Trillion is even more startling but we used to only work with billions.

I remember back in the late 1950s when I was just starting to really get interested in politics there was a budget meeting, with a Democrat Senator giving an account(this was in the paper, BTW)of expenditures. One Republican kept asking for clarification of monies and the Democrat finally blew up and asked "What? Do you want me to account for every little billion?". True story and one of the reasons I decided to not vote party, but to vote the person(I was born a Democrat but of course didn't stay one very long!).

"...if we started spending $1 Million the day Jesus Christ was born, and spent $1 Million every day since then, we still would have not spent $1 Trillion!"

Ok, I figured it out, 2739.72 years at a million a day. That kind of puts things in perspective doesn't it?