If we could just get millions of Americans to understand that one Trillion is one Million Million, and to be able to see that number with 12 zeroes, we would have no problem getting Congress and the White House to snap the purse shut.
1,000,000,000,000 doesn’t even seem real. It seems like the kind of number used in astronomy or other unrelated-to-daily-life subject.
What really drives things home is having to pay out of your own money instead of having a corporation deduct money you never see.That brings it home.