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 Feb. 2, 2010
So President Obama sent his new budget plan to Congress and it was $3.8 trillion.
Or should we say $3,800,000,000,000.
A whole lotta zeroes.
And our nation's deficit, the amount we will owe, as a result of this spending-palooza, is $1.56 trillion.
Or $1,560,000,000,000.
Still a whole lottta zeroes.
Which we will have to pay for, somehow.
Just how big is $1 trillion? Here are some facts we found via CNN to put that number into perspective -- and show just how much larger it is than $1 billion.
A billion is a thousand million.
A trillion is a thousand billion.
One trillion $1 bills stacked one on top of the other would reach nearly 68,000 miles into the sky, or about a third of the way from the Earth to the moon.
If you spent $1 million a day every day for 2,000 years -- back to the time when Jesus was born -- you would have spent three-quarters of a trillion dollars.
A million seconds is about 11½ days. A billion seconds is about 32 years.
A trillion seconds is 32,000 years,
Which is probably about how long it will take us to pay all this back.
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