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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: How Big Is A Trillion?
Message-ID: <1590@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 02:13:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1590
Posted: Thu Aug  8 02:13:15 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 04:44:08 EDT
References: <126@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: defense money spending
Summary: 

In article <126@well.UUCP> bcx@well.UUCP (Bryan Costales) writes:
>In the past 6 years the United States has spent over one trillion dollars
>on defense. Unfortunately, the average person has little concept of how large
>an ammount of money that really is. To illustrate how big a trillion really
>is, let me ask you some questions:
	(questions omitted)

A trillion dollars spent over 6 years, by a country of roughly 250
million people, amounts to about $700 per year per warm body, or $2800
per year for a family of 4.  With defense spending increasing, because
of inflation if for no other reason, the cost would have been less 6
years ago and would be more now... I'd guess about $900 per person this
year.  This is a lot easier to understand than questions about the size
of a cube containing a trillion grains of sand, or how long a trillion
seconds is.
-- 
David Canzi	"Adequacy -- is it enough?"