---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 01/18/09: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:11 AM - Re: How much is a trillion dollars? (Robert Feldtman) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:11:51 AM PST US Subject: Re: Commander-List: How much is a trillion dollars? From: Robert Feldtman 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 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. > > 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. > > > * > > * > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message commander-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Commander-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/commander-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/commander-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.