Trillion
posted in General |TRILLION
In the Sunday newspaper, there was an article on one of the inside pages saying that Prez Bush had proposed a budget of 3.1 Trillion dollars. That is 3.1 TRILLION — which looks like this –
$3,100,000,000,000.00. That is a lot of zeroes before the 3. I'm sure that most people have no real appreciation of the magnitude of $3 Trillion. When you grow up thinking in terms of hundreds or thousands, the whole notion of a trillion goes off the chart.
How does one go about spending $3.1 trillion? And what about the variables introduced by 100 fractious Senators and 435 bickering House members — to say nothing of the Committees involved? I guess that when Trillions are involved, 2-3 Million dollars here and there looks like pocket change. A $5 Million overrun?? So what's the big deal? Peanuts.
Maybe our Congress folks have become numb to big numbers. Could that explain financial irresponsibility?