This painless little number a 1 followed by 12 zeros. On paper it doesn't seem that big, only a couple of inches using the biggest font. What is all the fuss about then, when it comes to all this "stimulus" money. Let me try to put it into a little perspective, so it is a little easier to grasp.
A trillion dollars will buy:
About 9,000 Riverside Parkway Projects
About 11,000 Police/Fire Stations Projects
About 2,747 Invesco Fields at Mile High
About 5,000,000 new $200,000 homes
Assuming the current population of the United States is 305 million people, distributed evenly a trillion dollars would be $3278 for every man, woman or child.
400,000,000 living room furniture sets (I put that one in there for Mrs. T., she would like new furniture).
33,333,333 New $30,000 cars.
1,610 Capitol Visitor Centers
111 months of terrorist suppression in Iraq
2.3 Complete Interstate Highway systems (425 billion each using 2006 dollars)
333 Freedom Towers (at planned cost)
or simply 923,500,000,000 dollar menu items at McDonald's (minus the 76.5 billion in sales taxes).
Please call your Representative and Senators and request they not support the Stimulus bill. It is simply crazy to think that you can spend your way out of debt. Help make it stop Please!
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