Submitted by Thaisleeze
All this talk about “stimulus packages” and “bailouts”…
A billion dollars…
A hundred billion dollars…
Eight hundred billion dollars…
One TRILLION dollars…
What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I’d take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.
We’ll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.
A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2″ thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.
Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.
While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet…
And $1 BILLION dollars… now we’re really getting somewhere…
Next we’ll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we’ve been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it’s a million million. It’s a thousand billion. It’s a one followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this?
It’s pretty surprising.
Go ahead…
Scroll down…
Ladies and gentlemen… I give you $1 trillion dollars…
Notice those pallets are double stacked.
…and remember those are $100 bills.
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase “trillion dollars”… that’s what they’re talking about.
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The more there is of anything the less value it has. We are about to reap a whirl wind. All those country we bent over with the mighty dollar are going have show to watch. I bet they cheer a little too. To bad the world may burn as we try to find the next dominant economic power.
You should point to the source for what you did: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html
Anyone interested should look at that version.
I was just about to point there. These guys did a great job with their original in c.2008.
Money trap.
Tribal gangsters and assorted criminals from around the world have found this out.
I use a similar explanation to people, no visuals needed. Let’s say a penny is worth a million dollars, it weighs 3 1/2 grams. If a penny is worth a million dollars, then a billion dollars would weigh about 6 pounds. Inconvenient, but you could still stuff it in your pockets and walk around if you had to. If a penny was worth a million dollars, a trillion dollars would weigh more than 3 tons.
I always liked the 12/32 approximation for 1 trillion:
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years
1 trillion seconds = 32,000 years
See demonocracy.com for a real shocker if you haven’t already. Look at the derivatives that dwarf skyscrapers.
The Coinage Act of 1792:
“the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units … of the value [mass or weight] of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenth parts of a grain of pure … silver.”
dollar (n.)
“monetary unit or standard of value in the U.S. and Canada,” 1550s, daler, originally in English the name of a large, silver coin of varying value in the German states, from Low German daler, from German taler (1530s, later thaler), abbreviation of Joachimstaler, literally “(gulden) of Joachimstal,” coin minted 1519 from silver from mine opened 1516 near Joachimstal, town in Erzgebirge Mountains in northwest Bohemia. Joachimsthal was founded 1604 by Joachim Frederick (1546-1608), Elector of Brandenburg. German Tal is cognate with English dale. The spelling had been modified to dollar by 1600.
The thaler was from 17c. the more-or-less standardized coin of northern Germany (as opposed to the southern gulden). It also served as a currency unit in Denmark and Sweden (and later was a unit of the German monetary union of 1857-73 equal to three marks).
English colonists in America used the word dollar from 1580s in reference to Spanish peso or “piece of eight,” also a large silver coin of about the same fineness as the thaler. Due to extensive trade with the Spanish Indies and the proximity of Spanish colonies along the Gulf Coast, the Spanish dollar probably was the coin most familiar in the American colonies and the closest thing to a standard in all of them.
When the Revolution came, it had the added advantage of not being British. It was used in the government’s records of public debt and expenditures, and the Continental Congress in 1786 adopted dollar as a unit when it set up the modern U.S. currency system, which was based on the suggestion of Gouverneur Morris (1782) as modified by Thomas Jefferson. None were circulated until 1794.
My favorite is that they can conjure up the idea to spend $2 FUCKING TRILLION in a matter of less than 10 days from March 13, 2020??? More than TWICE what we waste on defense to support our sprawling, unsustainable EMPIRE.
I have a hard time believing that these plans were NOT already in the works after having read the GUTS of the CARE Act Law … Read it …
Do you think these fucking boneheads could dream this shit up in a matter of less than two fucking weeks?
Absolutely REEKS of “Patriot” Act pre-planning, not???
They can s*ck a d*ck!