I typically, as a matter of principle, don't get into anything deep or political on my blog. I feel like it disrupts the "vibe" that my blog encompasses. Yes. My blog does, in fact, have a vibe.
On that note, I would like to simply offer a brief nugget about the pending trillion dollar (I know that the amount hasn't reached a trillion yet, but it will if certain Powers-That-Be have their way) bailout. It is my belief that people, honestly, have absolutely not idea how much a trillion dollars actually is. It looks like this: 1,000,000,000,000, but does that really give you a grasp of how much money it really is?
Now, in one of my more nerdy accounting type moments, I sat down and figured a few things out about this to help wrap my mind around the enormity of this number. Basically - this is what it boils down to:
Give or take a year (I used a 365 standard calendar year): If you were to spend one million dollars every single day for 2739 years - it would equal 1,000,000,000,000 dollars. That is, essentially, spending a million dollars every single day since before Jesus walked the earth.
Come to your own conclusions, but just think about that for me. Will you?
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Wow I knew a trillion dollars was a lot but now that you've used your heavy duty number crunching skills I have a very clear picture of how much a trillion really is. A whole lot!
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