The Government of Billions

I have mentioned the following site before, but he is really amazing with how simple he puts the whole money issue, politicalmath.wordpress.com
However, he even stops short of showing you exactly what it is that you are doing when you let the Government throw numbers around like $900 billion, and $1 trillion.
These are numbers that have been used to show how much it will cost to do "bail outs" and "stimulus"...but what is that number?
Recently, with the advent of the Socialist Healthcare Reform, they have used $900 billion and $1.x trillion to tell us what it is going to cost...
Ten we get new news about a push for Broadband Service in the USA...since when is it the Government's responsibility to make sure I can surf the web, even if I cannot afford to put food on the table...???
This just doesn't make any sense. Especially with 3 of the worlds LARGEST telecom industries RIGHT HERE IN THE USA...
Isn't it THEIR responsibility to bilk us out of our money?
Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan

Now then, lets take a closer look at what a TRILLION dollars looks like...
I borrowed this from something that had no attribution

We’ll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.


A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for a week or two of shamefully decadent fun.


Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.


While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...and you would need a pickup truck to haul it around.


And $1 BILLION dollars... now we’re really getting somewhere...and you would need a semi to haul it.


And for the Grand Finale, I give you $1 Trillion dollars...it would fit in a very large Warehouse...(2 palets stacked at 4x4x4 each, or just over 8 feet tall and 16 square feet wide, times 1000, or about 80,000 square feet of warehouse space)


So, the next time you wonder where all your money has gone, just remember, YOU ELECTED HIM, YOU ELECTED THE CONGRESS, and YOU AREN'T DEMANDING "REAL CHANGE" ... you are just letting them spend, spend, spend, and spend some more...

In order to deal with the Democrat Spending Spree, and to save all the forests and trees everywhere, we should print the following money, it would keep spending high, but we could carry around the national debt in our pockets...

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
– Thomas Jefferson