Eventually It Becomes Real Money

As they banter around "millions", "billions" and now, "trillions" of dollars in an effort to restart the economy, it seems that we've lost our perspective.

So let's take a look. First up, below is a Ben Franklin. Also known as a $100 bill. Most of us have seen such a thing. Maybe even held a few.

With $100 a nice dinner could be purchased. Enough gasoline could be purchased to last a couple of weeks. It'll pay your cell phone bill for two months.



You take 100 $100 bills and you've got $10,000. Enough to buy some nice appliances when you remodel the kitchen. Or pay for a grand weekend in Vegas.



Stack 100 of those $10,000 money piles and you'll get $1 million. Now this becomes serious money. A new home is possible. Buy cheap and you can even include a nice car for the new garage.



To the $1 mil pile of money, let's add 99 more $1 mil piles. Now we have $100,000,000. Very serious money. Retire forever. Let you greed run wild.

You're $100,000,000 grows and becomes $1,000,000,000. If money could buy happiness, you'd now be very happy. Several times over.
But sadly the money being talked about is far in excess of this pile of $1 billion. In fact, it seems that $1,000,000,000 just doesn't buy much when it comes to spending by our government.

So now let's take a look at a number that has been tossed around a lot lately:

$1,000,000,000,000,000

That's one trillion dollars. This will buy 2,457,000 Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupes. Or you could have purchased the Sears Tower in Chicago almost 1,300 times for it's recent sale price of $835,000,000.

Below is a graphic representation of $1 trillion. You'll note that unlike above, the pallets are now double stacked.