Desperately seeking "It's hard to understand what a trillion is. I don't

[roseBudd]

know what it is" by Judd Gregg (R-NH). I do know it is recent, probably from debate on raising the debt limit. Need audio or video for antiwar Flash movie called PRICELESS.

[ClassWarrior]

1. I haven't seen that, but speaking of big numbers, have you seen this?...

http://truemajority.com/oreos/

NGU.

[Warpy]

2. Dunno, but I explain it this way

A rich man married a young trophy wife. The only fly in the ointment is that the new wife wanted her elderly mother to live with them. Well, the husband didn't want to mess up his good thing with the new wife, so he decided to get rid of his mother in law by sending her shopping. He gave her an allowance of a thousand dollars a day, enough for Cancun or any other sunny tropical tourist paradise.

For a million dollars, he'd lose her for just a little under three years.

For a billion dollars, she'd be out of his hair for three THOUSAND years, which is longer than the time Christianity has been around.

For a trillion dollars, she'd be gone for three MILLION years, which is longer than the time apes have been walking upright and banging two rocks together as tools.

And now you know what a trillion is.

[lostnfound]

3. Here's a link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=677959

After all, how much is a trillion?

It's the number one followed by 12 zeros. But that doesn't shed much light on just how deeply in debt the federal government is that it must pass a law enabling it to borrow up to $8.965 trillion.

"It's hard to understand what a trillion is. I don't know what it is," confessed Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, this week when debating the government's staggering fiscal obligations.

Reuters

[roseBudd]

4. Ok so Gregg said it in the week of March 16, since I need audio I need

to find someone who TiVos CSpan.

[madmom]

5. I heard the other day you can spend one million $ a day for a

million days, how much is a million days? 2740 years!

[MadAsHell]

6. I always like to bring it closer to home for people ...

When the pResident or one of the Congress Critters talks about a billion dollars you should think $3.00 ...

There are around 300 million of us here in the States, so a billion dollars works out to be more than $3.00 for each and every one of us.

So some quick multiplying can really get peoples attention.

For example, when Bush asks for another 60 billion to fund his little Iraqi clusterf#$k that $3.00 x 60 or $180 for each and every one of us or $720 for a family of four.

-or-

When they say the deficit is 570 billion dollars, that's $1710 for each of us or $6840 for a family of four.

-or-

When the debt limit is increased to 9 Trillion dollars, that $27,000 (yes it is really twenty seven thousand dollars) of each of us or $108,000 dollars for a family of four. Talk about a birth tax, I suppose that is why the babies all cry when they a born....