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Category: Fiscal Responsibility By Benjamin Pooler State Director - Kentucky Visualizing One Trillion Dollars is hard to comprehend on a standard nine digit calculator. There have been attempts to put this number into perspective before. A trillion dollar laid end to end would reach the Sun; it's a number that few people can comprehend, let alone you could spend a dollar per second for 32,000 years. One trillion dollars in pennies would weigh as much as 2,755,778. Fanciful as this may be, the real story behind one trillion dollars is in its economic impact. Let's investigate what one trillion dollars can do. One Trillion Dollars runs the U.S. Government for 103 days, that's the U.S. Government folks not the entire U.S. economy. That's just the start of the waste of the American people's money. One Trillion Dollars can fund the entire NATO forces with all countries involved. It can pay for every war up to 9/11/2001. It also can buy every home that was foreclosed on in 2007 and 2008 combined. It can give every American worker 11 more weeks of vacation paid. A Trillion Dollars can buy all the stock in Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Coca-cola, Pepisco, Time Warner, Google and Apple Computer combined with 23 Billion Dollars left over! If they divide $1 trillion among every American ... each person would get $3,271. ($1,000,000,000,000 / 305,702,054 (U.S. Population) = $3,271) To put things in perspective, current estimates put the number of stars in the Milky Way at somewhere between 100 and 400 billion. With $1 trillion, you could put 8.2 million students through a full four years of private college. That's just slightly more than the population of New York City in the latest U.S. Census data. You could buy every major-league professional sports franchise (football, basketball, hockey and baseball) in North America for about $45 billion total, according to recent market values in Forbes magazine. Then, you could pay each of them for more than 100 years, if the players' combined salaries held at 2006-'07 levels of about $9 billion. The median salary for a family doctor in the United States is $144,719, according to Salary.com. With $1 trillion, you could hire 6.9 million general practitioners, or one for every 43 Americans. One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money to buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini Gallardo, buy everyone living in Belize and Malta a Manhattan apartment, get half of the Democratic Party into a fundraiser for Barack Obama at the $28,500 admission price, give one out of every two men in the United States a Men's Presidential Rolex watch, buy every woman in the United States a Tiffany Diamond Starfish Pendant, get two Mitsubishi 73″ HDTVs for every household in America, buy four copies of The Office: Season Four on DVD, to every person on earth, send everybody in America on an all-inclusive vacation to Tahiti (and some people can stay a few extra days). $1 trillion is enough money for everyone in Buffalo, NY to buy their own 65-acre island in Panama, it would buy a 10 person hot tub for every House hold in America, it would buy everyone in Kentucky a tomahawk cruise missile and maybe that would stop there spending. What does that look like? Well below illustrates what it would look like if you had to Read about it. We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go. A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun. Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet... And $1 BILLION dollars would fit on four pallets double stacked... now we're really getting somewhere...Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros. You ready for this? It's not pretty surprisly it would be double stacked pallets. that would fit into three football feilds. So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about, so let's get into what we actually spend and I say we because we elected these idiots into office me included. The total debt so far this year 2010 is a whopping, $ 13,424,035,479,128. This money borrowed we owe back to the banks plus interest. The total deficit so far this year is 1.4 Trillion, Which is what we spent that we don't have. This is borrowed money folks, from people that we shouldn't be borrowing from. Here is what we actually spend each year in this country, and just to remind you, the money you see here is what we spend here each year to run our Government not to support your bills but theirs. Now this is just the Federal Government, 3.3 Trillion. If you add in Sate and Local Governments into the equation it's much higher, 6.5 Trillion. Do you believe that 15% of this amount were talking about here is in pensions for these little bastards to retire with. Some of these Government officials retire only after four years of service. The average retirement pay for a Government official is 125,000. I looked at my so called Social Security Retirement check statement I got this year and it said at age 67 I would get a whopping 1718.00 per month, that's
still 22 years away. I just don't get it, why in the hell that all Americans aren't ready to vote out every single one of them. They get voted in and just screw everyone one of us. I'm not looking for a hand out; I just want this to stop now. I pay 67 percent of my money goes into taxes, fees, licenses, and what ever else they can think of. When is enough, enough? Get off your lazy butts and do something, spend fives minutes a read something pertaining to the current situation. Spend five minutes and vote this November. I know, I know it doesn't
matter who you vote for they all will do the same thing to us. Then go to some of these rallies that are coming up. Call your local idiot, oops I mean your local Government and complain. I just spent two hours of my time researching and typing one handed to inform you with real credible information, so maybe it would spark a fire to do something. I promise you, I will!... Ben is Director for the Kentucky TEA party Check out and or join Ben here. You don't have to live in KY to join. This Group is headed by fellow Americans and is dedicated to preserving the Constitutional rights of the people. We as the people of The United States will stand up and uphold each and every God given right, as was done by our forefathers. We are Dedicated to preserving liberty & freedom for all Americans. This group is dedicated to helping the Tea Party in every way possible, because we believe the Tea Party Patriots have demonstrated their ability to speak for the people, without putting themselves first. I would like if Americans that feel the same way I do to join my group. Below is a link to join. Its easy all you have to do is click onto the link, hit the join this group button, resister with the Tea Party Patriots and your in. Please help me in this effort and show those in Congress and the Senate we mean business. Thank you for your support.
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