The US Bailout Package to hit $1 Trillion Dollars

I was watching the Daily Show last night and Jon's Guest was John Sununu, a former Republican (GOP) United States Senator from New Hampshire, he was also a member of the TARP oversight committee. He stated that the US bailout package will hit $1 Trillion Dollars. 1 trillion, that is 1,000,000,000,000 (a million million), most people don't understand numbers that big as most things in life do not require dealing with such large quantities.

If you take a single 1 dollar bill (US) is is roughly 6 inches in length (a little more I know), is you took 1 trillion dollar bils and laid them end to end, you would have a line 94,696,969.7 miles (152,400,000 Km) long. That is a line long enough to circle the Earth a little over 3,806 times! Heck, that is a line almost 400 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon and politicians throw "trillion" around like it is nothing!

Heck if you consider that the average dollar bill (US again) consumes roughly 0.1 ft², 1 trillion dollar bills laid out would consume 3,587.006 mi², that could almost blanket the entire state of Connecticut (4,845 mi²)!

So next time you hear a politician saying "trillion this trillion that", stand up and say "Hey! Wait a minute, do you know how much a trillion is?" I bet both you and I know their answer.