What does a trillion dollars look like? How about 12 trillion?
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 let's 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, slightly 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 about so much. 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. Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...
Notice the pallets are double stacked! And look at the very tiny person in the lower left corner.
Now imagine what $12 Trillion (our national debt) would look like. Add eleven more double pallet stacks to the picture above. What do you think the chances of we the people ever paying it back and getting out of debt? Right, we would always remain as debtors. And how much benefit would we the people have received in return for assuming this massive debt load which was thrust upon us? That’s right, “None.”
Yet, politicians keep spending with an almost insane obsession. Most Democrats and far too many Republicans keep adding pallets of money onto this debt.
Furthermore the greatest portion of this debt is owed to the Federal Reserve, the FED. They along with members of congress are responsible for this travesty. Its critical that Ron Paul’s legislation, HR 1207, to audit the FED, is passed ASAP. Right now 237 House members have signed on as co-sponsors. If your representative hasn’t, it’s critical that they do.
Here is a list of sponsors. The PA Delegation does pretty well with 11 out of 19 as sponsors. Thank you to all of those who think that an audit of the Federal Reserve is a prudent and reasonable action.
Here is a list of the NON-sponsors. Contact them! Even if you don't live in their district, they need to represent the interests of ALL Americans.
(Click on name for webpage. Click on "Contact" tab for contact information.)
Robert Brady (D-PA-1)
Chaka Fattah (D-PA-2)
Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA-3)
Joe Sestak (D-PA-7)
Paul Kanjorski (D-PA-11)
John Murtha (D-PA-12)
Allyson Schwartz (D-PA-13)
Mike Doyle (D-PA-14)
6 comments:
Aren't you supposed to provide citations when you use other people's work?
I did. This is an email that is circulating around the internet that was forwarded to me by conservatives from Delaware. (The only identifiable source.)
If an author wishes to be cited, they would not send around an anonymous email without any identifying information to cite.
I also noted that I made some edits to the original email.
Material in the public domain can be utilized however one wishes. I merely made the mention so no one would make the mistaken assumption that the work and the graphics were my original work.
However, one cannot cite that which is "uncited".
Wasn't that tiny little guy at the lower left corner of the last image, Barack Obama?
Nope. That is Washington's view of the average, hardworking taxpayer.
Tiny and insignificant. It ain't just President Obama. Any Republican who votes for higher taxes, more debt or the expansion of government programs and spending is just as guilty.
I liked the visuals. I sent along to a few others, including a few HS teachers to use.
Earlier one of them had sent me a link putting it in laymen terms, part of which went:
"Understanding the deficit means putting it into terms the lower to middle class voter can understand. Based on the Congressional Budget Offices 2009 comparisons, a lower to middle class family would have to have a tax free income of 50K per year, but be spending almost 93K per year while carrying a mortgage/credit card debt that by the end of the year, will reach 277K."
Good job! Keep spreading the word. I tire of hearing people complain about 'the media' and about 'Democrats who lie'.
We need to bring OUR message and facts in every forum and in every way possible.
And we need to become more effective at it. Your efforts will help.
We cannot change ABC or MSNBC overnight.
We can change public perception with a steady effort in every way possible over time.
Thank you for your efforts. If 1,000 more followed, we would start to make a difference.
Instead, 1,000 are probably whining that the 'media' is the problem.
Please convince one other person to do the same thing that you are.
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