$272 billion is an impossibly high number for anyone to visualize.

[sellitman]

"Our administration is concerned about deficits, and the way they deal with deficits is you want to control spending. And I hope Congress lives up to their words. When they talk about deficits, they can join us in making sure we don't overspend. They can join us and make sure that the appropriations process is focused on those issues that -- those items that are absolutely necessary to the American people. I'm pleased that members of the Congress are talking about deficits. It means they understand their obligations not to overspend the people's money."

President Bush,
Remarks by the President in Photo Opportunity with His Cabinet
Jan. 6, 2003


After reading that go to this site

( http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/ )

and check out what 272 BILLION Dollars looks like. It makes you kind of sick...doesn't it?

[Hamlette]

1. great graphics, another one I like

back when you could get 9% interest it made a little more sense but, if you put $1B in the bank at about 9% compound interest, you would earn $250,000 per day. $1M in 4 days.

multiply it for $300B and you'd get $75M a day in interest.

[shraby]

2. Check out about how big a stack

9 billion would be and that is what went missing in Iraq. The closest you can get is 9 hundred million.