Wednesday, April 01, 2009

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

Taking Google Sketchup out for a test drive to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.

Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois)
The Big Apple
(1896-1969)

We received an email attachment from of our gentle readers this morning, something we found to be quite interesting:
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?
Check THIS out:
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.

A Weber County Tip O' the Hat to Gentle Reader Larry for the tip.

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