Tuesday 24 March 2009

A Billion Here A Billion There, It Is All Numbers,

but when people start saying lets go to town and have a Trillion, what does it look like?
well this is easy, a one hundred dollar bill,
above, a packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000,
now I come into the picture, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000)
this is more like it! a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable, it fits neatly on a standard pallet,
and $1 BILLION dollars, now we're really getting somewhere almost a truck full!
look at ONE TRILLION dollars, this is that number we've been hearing so much about, what is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million, it's a thousand billion, it's a one followed by 12 zeros, look at me down there on the left, go on, give me a wave! so the next time you hear some one say "have a trillion bale out" this is what they mean, notice those pallets are double stacked....and remember those are $100 bills, oh the trees, think of the trees!

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