one trillion explained

[mike45]

A Dollar bill is .0043" thick.
A one foot tall stack has 2790 Dollar bills in it.
one trillion divided by 2790 = 358333034.7 feet.
358333034.7 feet divided by 5280 feet in one mile=67866 miles high.

A dollar bill weighs about one gram
453.6 grams in one pound
one trillion divided by 453.6 = 2204585538 lbs
2204585538 divided by 2000 lbs per ton =1.1 million tons
Or about 3000 fully loaded semi trucks
Or about a three hundred mile long convoy.

 

[John Galt]

If dollars were seconds:
1 million seconds = app. 11 1/2 days
1 billion seconds = app. 32 years
1 trillion seconds = app. 32,000 years

We are being plundered. Daily. And our laws sanction this theft by the Washington Cartel.
Enjoy the ride ...

 

[No2rdame]

But we don't have a spending problem!