Yea, people have trouble visualizing the kind of money we’re talking about here. For example you could also do the following with a billion dollars:
1) Buy every household a new car (small one, but new)
2) Buy at least 100 aircraft carriers and the jets to go with them (we have 11 in service now)
3) Pay the energy bill for the United States for 1 year
4) Build 10,000,000 new homes to house the Illegals
5) Tear up every Interstate Highway and rebuild from the dirt up (including the bridges)
6) Pay the cost of everyone driving on the toll roads around Austin for 5 years*
7) Fly 1000 Space Shuttle missions (if it were still flying); 7 times the total number that actually flew
8) Build at least 2000 B-2 Bombers
9) Pay everyone’s mortgage for a year
10) Build 200 nuclear reactors, essentially tripling our count...and having nuclear provide over half of our power.
(*had to take that stab at Perry)
It is very difficult to visualize the kind of money that we’re spending, but don’t have...not to mention our debt. I hope this helps a bit. So look at the list above and then think about what we got when Obama spent his trillion dollar wad.
I bet you meant a TRILLION dollars, right?