Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site aero.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!aero!foy 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 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:14:40 EDT References: <126@well.UUCP> Reply-To: foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy (Veh. Systems)) Organization: The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA Lines: 15 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.