...Just how much is a $3 trillion?

Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:12 pm

A letter to the Editor in Vanity Fair:

I WONDER HOW MANY people can fathom just how much $3 trillion really is. We have become so inured to our network talking heads and cable commentators tossing around words such as "millions," "billions," and now "trillions" that perhaps we need a little perspective. Here's some: if I were to give someone $3 trillion and tell him that he had to spend $100 million each and every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and then told him not to come back to me until he had spent every last penny, said person would not return for approximately 82 years. Think about that. Eighty-two years' worth of spending $100 million each day. And if I were to lower that number to , say, a paltry $1 million a day and gave the person the same terms, he wouldn't be finished spending the cash for 8,219 years, or just about how long it is going to take our descendants to pay off this stroke of genius by Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Paul wolfowitz and George W. Bush.
Andrew J Clarra, Fairbanks Connecticut

....and John McCain thanks it well take another 5 years to "WIN."
Lets say "conservatively" we war for the next 5 years on the cheap, and we spend only $2 trillion dollars....I guess we should start learning Chinese now.

...Just the Fact's mam, just the FACTS...