No matter how you may try to conceive a trillion dollars, I think that many of you do not fully understand a trillion dollars. I liked the e-mail I received so I am including it on this blog. Although it is shown what a trillion dollors is, it is still unfathomable.
Shame on ourselves for allowing our government to be ELEVEN trillion dollars in debt and throw around trillion dollar bills in congress.
Here you go...
A $100 Bill (The remaining piles of money are composed of $100 Bills) 
$10,000 
This small stack of bills is One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) 
This crate of money is 100 million dollars ($100,000,000)
A billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) 
Behold, a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000)!!! Note the man is still there to the left of the picture, the crates are stacked two high.
If I count correctly the area that is shown here is representative of the area within a highschool track, the football field and supporting area between the football field and the track. That is still stacking two high too.
One trillion dollars! May I remind you that the US is eleven trillion dollars in debt so stack 20 more crates high on the original two shown in the picture and you have our national debt. That means that the crates would stack to be about 100 feet high. Can you fathom it? http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Let's all pull our heads out together!!!
