What does a Trillion dollars look like?

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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.

Heres what $100 Million looks like

pallet.jpg


And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

pallet_x_10.jpg


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.

pallet_x_10000.jpg


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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What it means is that despite almost $2 trillion in taxes spent in stimulus, American economy has lost a net 6.1 million jobs.

What it means is that the final tab for Pelosi’s speakership: $5.34 trillion in new debt....or $3.66 billion per day

Which looks pretty much like this:

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