What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

**Jason** · 03-08-2009, 11:02 AM

All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

bry623 · 03-09-2009, 01:32 PM

Now, that's perspective. Of course, the crooked politicians and stimulus receivers would try to pull 1 bill from each stack. Nobody would miss it right?

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03-09-2009, 01:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
bry623 Manager, The Conversation Pit/Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: NW Territory circa 1787 Posts: 11,713 OS: winxp pro sp2	Re: What does one TRILLION dollars look like? Now, that's perspective. Of course, the crooked politicians and stimulus receivers would try to pull 1 bill from each stack. Nobody would miss it right? __________________ "If you aren't a liberal when you're 20, you have no heart. If you aren't a conservative when you are 50, you have no brain"