What's a Trillion Dollars Look Like?

In this day and age when Obama thinks nothing of racking up a couple of Trillions in spending and deficits it's easy to get lulled into thinking So What? A Trillion is just the next number up from a billion, and we've been talking billions for decades. So what's the big deal about a Trillion?

Courtesy of PageTutor.com here's a good way to visualize just what a Trillion looks like and why we should be concerned with our out-of-control Congress and President.


Let's start with $10,000. A nice hefty sum that in $100 bills fit's nicely in a pocket or purse

$10,000

Now let's look at $1 million. Here, 100 stacks of $10,000 make a pile that would fit nicely into a grocery bag. That'd make for a fun shopping spree!

$1 million


Now that measly $1 million looked a little small, so let's see what $100 million looks like. A little more impressive, wouldn't you say? Makes a nice square pallet of money.

$100 million

Let's take a look at a real pile of money, $1 billion dollars, which is 10 of the $100 million pallets. That might take a while to spend, unless you're a pork-crazed Congressman

$1 billion

And that brings us to the real stack of money. The one that Pelosi, Reid and Obama think is just the answer to our economic woes. Let's take a look at what $1 Trillion looks like.

$1 Trillion

Look at that! Notice that the pallets are double-stacked? See our little red-shirted man in the left-hand corner?

Remember this view the next time your friendly MSM talking head throws around some numbers and tells you the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-generous, all-taxing Obama is going to need another Trillion or so of your money to fix our economy!