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Originally Posted by DAVES
Where we are today. National debt is now 30 Trillion dollars. I seem to be one of the only who realize I do not comprehend one trillion let alone 30 of them. We chat about billions. Hey a million here a million there get 100 million together before another 100 million and oops we have one trillion. No need to ask if an expense is worth while we are not even actually printing it. Most of the debt is just computer notes. No one is even asking you owe us half a trillion we owe you a trillion so REALITY we owe you not a trillion but half a trillion.
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I think that these measurements are a bit off but you get get a good idea of how much a trillion is.
I was told that a stack of $100 bills equalling one million dollars is about a foot high. (It may be a bit less.)
A stack of $100 dollar bills equalling a billion dollars would be taller than the Empire State Building.
A trillion dollars would be represented by one thousand stacks of $100 the height of the Empire State building.
Picture an island of one thousand stacks of $100 bills the height of the Empire State building.
Now picture 30 of those islands.
It's still a bit difficult to get the idea of more than a billion in your head. But it's a lot of money.