What does a trillion dollars look like?

[RogueNavy]

I'm not sure of the accuracy of this site's graphic...but if it is, it's damn sure depressing!

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

[virose09]

woah..that's a lot of money...:p

[ingbda01]

wow. thats pretty awesome.

[03_SHOOTER]

You think that's bad?? Take a look at the federal budget! Over the next 2 years ALONE, the government is going to be spending $3 Trillion dollars that WE DON'T HAVE! This year, we're running a $1.752 Trillion dollar deficit, and next year we're running a $1.171 Trillion dollar deficit. By way of comparison, during the ENTIRE 45 months of WWII we ran a TOTAL of $2.1 Trillion dollars in deficits, and it took us over 30 years to pay it off! The only difference this time is that we're not spending that money to defeat a threat to our nation, the Democraps are spending it to prop up a failed economic system that the Democraps INVENTED!

[SGM]

That if they were smart enough to just let most things ride, economics would weed out the week, the strong would survive, and in the end the whole would be stronger. Yes there would be some belt tightening, and not too nice times, but in the end things would be better than the sugar pill we are getting now.

[HairyEyeball]

Just to recap (original disappeared into the ether): Nice pictures, but that 'money' doesn't exist and never will. It's an illusion created by the government - put as simply as possible (for the 'beneficiaries' of the current system of public 'education'), the feds effectively told banks and selected corporations to 'add another zero to your assets'.

Additionally, as almost anyone who has ever spun a quarter is aware, 'perpetual motion' is a nice dream, but tends to run afoul of the rules of reality (and physics). This ongoing farce of socializing the nation under the lie of 'stimulating' a stagnant economy (already faltering due to precisely that government intervention) not only prolongs the inevitable, it guarantees that when it comes - and there is no doubt it will - it will fall deeper and last longer. Those cognizant of George Santayana's admonition regarding the repetition of history for the ignorant will recognize that Franklin Delano Socialist's 'programs' dug us into a hole that only a world war could pull us out of. Can we see a show of hands of those who are enthusiastic about engaging in one to pull us out of the hole Barack Hussein, the Screecher of the House and Harry Screed are digging?