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| Subject: | Re: How much is a trillion dollars? |
As a professor of surgery I try to make a visual comparison as I teach
medical students. I ask "how much do we spend on health care inn USA?" they
don't know - it is 2.2 trillion. so then I give the visual - a stack of
fresh 1000 dollar bills is 8 inches high - billion is 300 feet high,
trillion is 23 miles high.
bobf
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM, nico css <nico@cybersuperstore.com> wrote:
> A dollar bill is 6 1/8th inches long and 2 5/8 inches wide. If we lay $1
> bills longways end to end, one trillion dollars would stretch about 96.6
> million miles or 3,866 times around the earth. That's 3 million miles beyond
> the sun.
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> And not a dime of it has been or will be spent by you. Congress alone is
> responsible for burning that money. You alone can change it.
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