Or you can watch this video:
If you need more of a graphic representation, I borrowed the following images from here.
Here is what $10,000 looks like; a stack of one hundred $100 bills.
Next, you can see what a million dollars looks like.
To keep that in perspective, if you could spend a thousand dollars a day, it would take you about two years and nine months to spend it. If your household budget is $3,000 per month, it would take you about 28 years to spend it.
Next graphic shows what 100 million dollars looks like. Now you need a forklift.
Now, a Billion dollars is 1000 times one million: $1,000,000,000 and the graphic below lets you see what it looks like.
I don't know what you could think to spend it on, but you could spend $1,000,000 a day and it would take you 2 years and nine months to work your way through this amount.
So what does $1 TRILLION look like? $1,000,000,000,000 is one million times one million.
Take out just 190 of those double stacked pallets. Thats not quite two rows. That represents the 38 billion that Congress compromised on cutting from the budget. That means we will continue to go into staggering debt. So here's a graphic that might help you wrap your brain around the problem.
This is what we get for believing that it's okay for government to take from the productive people of society and give it to the non-productive.
If you haven't started making plans for what you are going to do when this house of cards comes tumbling down, then you are way, WAY behind.
