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From: foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy )
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: How Big Is A Trillion?
Message-ID: <338@aero.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 10:57:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: aero.338
Posted: Thu Aug  8 10:57:18 1985
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Reply-To: foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy (Veh. Systems))
Organization: The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA
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Keywords: defense money spending

In article <126@well.UUCP> bcx@well.UUCP (Bryan Costales) writes:
>
>an ammount of money that really is. To illustrate how big a trillion really
>
>on "defense" in just 6 years! -- How much would it cost to pay $1,000.00 to
>each and every man, woman and child in the Soviet Union?
>
These sort of calculations always amaze me and make me wonder about our 
inability to see what we are doing.

I wonder if it might be easier and perhaps just as productive if we spent 
about 0.1% of the defense budget to finance trips of private people carrying
individual gifts to the Soviet people.