imported_Tom
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Hearing the Govt throw the word 'trillion' around like I throw one dollar bills around got me to wondering just how big a trillion is. I sort of know how big a billion is, during grad school in the '70's a prof explained a billion this way, 'a billion seconds ago they had not expoded the atomic bomb, a billion minutes ago Christ was teaching and a billion hours ago man was living in caves' I remember thinking to myself-'Wow, a billion is alot'
But a trillion-just couldn't even begin to get my mind around it, yes I know a trillion is one thousand billion, but how big is that?
I emailed the US Treasury Dept and asked how long it would take them to print one trillion dollars in one dollar bills-this would put the number in perspective for me. To my surprise in about a week I got an answer from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. To print one trillion dollars in ONE HUNDRED dollar bills-read on and the reason why they switched the note will become obvious to you-would take the Government 1.4 years. If you have kids, or grand kids you probably want to stop here; move the decimal over two places for one dollar bills and you have 140 years necessary to print one trillion dollars in one dollar bills-every press, every person, every work day would be cranking for one hundred and fourty years...
Not scared enough?, they are talking 7.4 trillion for the 'recovery' that boys and girls means the Government would need just over a thousand years to print the 7plus trillion dollars in one dollar bills if the BEP needed to print the currency.
Oh, I forgot, after I got this info I goggled 'one trillion'-one fact was that a trillion seconds equals just over 30,000 years.
Think about it.
But a trillion-just couldn't even begin to get my mind around it, yes I know a trillion is one thousand billion, but how big is that?
I emailed the US Treasury Dept and asked how long it would take them to print one trillion dollars in one dollar bills-this would put the number in perspective for me. To my surprise in about a week I got an answer from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. To print one trillion dollars in ONE HUNDRED dollar bills-read on and the reason why they switched the note will become obvious to you-would take the Government 1.4 years. If you have kids, or grand kids you probably want to stop here; move the decimal over two places for one dollar bills and you have 140 years necessary to print one trillion dollars in one dollar bills-every press, every person, every work day would be cranking for one hundred and fourty years...
Not scared enough?, they are talking 7.4 trillion for the 'recovery' that boys and girls means the Government would need just over a thousand years to print the 7plus trillion dollars in one dollar bills if the BEP needed to print the currency.
Oh, I forgot, after I got this info I goggled 'one trillion'-one fact was that a trillion seconds equals just over 30,000 years.
Think about it.
