What is a trillion?
Posted on: Thu, Feb 07, 2008; 10:42 AM
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What is a trillion?
WASHINGTON - A person given $1 million a year to spend would need 3 million years to blow $3 trillion. The United States, a government of sizable financial appetite, can do it in one.
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Three trillion dollars is about what the federal government will spend this year for domestic and defense programs and benefit entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, according to President Bush's latest federal budget proposal Monday.
A trillion is a figure more commonly used when talking about outer space. A light year, the distance that light travels in a vacuum in a year, is about 6 trillion miles.
Written out, a trillion is a one followed by 12 zeros, or 1,000,000,000,000. That's a million times one million, or a thousand times one billion.
There are about 6.8 billion people in the world, meaning that every living person would get $441 if the U.S. government's budget was divided up. If the money was split among the 300 million Americans, everyone would take home $10,000.
Counting to 3 trillion at a rate of one number a second would take almost 95,000 years.
Looking at it another way, one would have to circumvent the globe 120 million times to travel 3 trillion miles. Similarly, that would be some 17,000 round trips to the sun. The universe, 15 billion years old at the outside, would need another 200 such lifetimes to reach 3 trillion years.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/budget_trillions
Totally agree with ya bratha. The rich get richer the poor get poorer. Not to many of our folks are Rich. The ones that are, should reach MaCain's 500,000 dollar cause that is middle class to him. lol =) We have mien millionaires too. lol. Much love to all, Respect and love and VOTE. =)
A trillion? I have a trillion. Only a couple of trillion, not very many, though. J/K.
Yeah, our government throws money around in trillions and billions. I cant blame them since they are either middle or rich class. They can take many hits on their paycheck but not the poor. A couple of hits here and there will make us fall to our feets. I cant believe even though our government is already in $11 trillion debt, we still have the money to fund the $700 billion bail-out. I dont understand. They realize the price and foreclosure of homes around 2003 and they didnt do anything about it. They didnt fund any money to the market or anything. They let it fall. They say they dont have that kind of money. It was all BS. Who should we blame? We should blame the Republicans because Republicans are there to make the rich stay afloat and the poor, poorer.
What is a trillion?