Zanny Rants » trillion http://www.zannyrants.com Opinions, Thoughts and Commentary of a Baby Boomer Artist Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:54:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Stimulus Package Rant: Just How Much Is A Trillion? http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/09/just-how-much-is-a-trillion/ http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/02/09/just-how-much-is-a-trillion/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:08:03 +0000 zanny http://www.zannyrants.com/?p=13 President Obama will be addressing the nation in a few hours regarding this “stimulus package” that will save the economy from sheer disaster. Well, I don’t know if it will or not, I’m not an economist or a mathematician, but……I did some math trying to wrap my brain around the dollars being committed to this effort and I want to share what I discovered in this rant.

I picked a figure I can relate to……..$2000, and a time frame I could understand….24 hours. Then I did the math! Astonishing. That’s a bucket-load of money, for sure. Just to put it in a little different perspective, so you can grasp the enormity of the amount, if you really could spend $2000 per minute, even for one day, you’d spend $2,880,000 in just the first 24 hours! Isn’t that mind-blowing?!

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