No matter what you show, a 'trillion dollars' is still very hard to comprehend.
And Mr. Trump has budgeted to add $1.5 trillion per year to the $20 trillion current debt!
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
(calculations & dimensions)
1) We are using $100 dollar bills, not $1 bills.
2) We are using the following definitions of million, billion and trilli
| MILLION | = | 1,000,000 |
| BILLION | = | 1,000,000,000 |
| TRILLION | = | 1,000,000,000,000 |
We'll start with one packet...
(I've removed the graphics for clarity)
This packet is a stack of one hundred $100 dollar bills. It's about 6" by 2-1/2" by 0.43" high.
100 x $100 = $10,000
Next we'll arrange 10 packets on the ground like so...
10 x $10,000 = $100,000
If we increase it to 10 layers high, we get $1,000,000 (one million dollars)...
10 x $100,000 = $1,000,000
The pile is 12" wide (2 x 6"), 12.5" deep (5 x 2.5") and 4.3" high (10 x .43").
Now we'll look at a pallet. We'll start with one layer, 7 packets wide by 16 packets deep, with each packet being $10,000.
7 x 16 = 112 packets per layer
112 x $10,000 = $1,120,000 per layer
Increase that to 90 layers and you have a stack 38.7" tall (plus 4" for the pallet) that is worth a little over $100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)
90 x $1,120,000 = $100,800,000
For the sake of simplicty, we'll round this down and consider a pallet to be exactly $100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars). We'll just put put the extra $800,000 aside and have ourselves a party. With all this money sloshing around, who's gonna miss it?
Next, ten pallets of $100 million are $1 billion...
10 x $100,000,000 = $1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars)
Next, a row of 50 double-stacked pallets (50 x 2 = 100 pallets total).
100 x $100,000,000/pallet = $10,000,000,000 (ten billion dollars)
Multiply that by 100 rows....
100 rows x $10,000,000,000 = $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)
(Notice the little guy at the bottom left corner.)
Here's another view oriented a little more to the front...
So, one hundred rows x 100 pallets per row is 10,000 pallets.
That's a LOT of $100 bills!
And hopefully that puts to rest any notions of "errors".
You know, it occurs to me.... if you were the guy stacking all those pallets and you swiped one single bill from the top of each pallet, after you were done you'd have yourself a cool $million.
|---------Dimensions---------|
Each individual pallet is 42" wide by 40" deep. The height of the bills is 38.7". Add 4" for a pallet and the total height of one pallet of bills is 42.7". In the field of pallets above, the pallets are spaced 12" apart.
The field is 50 pallets x 100 pallets by 2 pallets high, so...
width = (50 x 42") + (49 x 12") = 2100" + 588" = 2688" = 224 ft
depth = (100 x 40") + (99 x 12") = 4000" + 1188" = 5188" = 432.33ft
height = 2 x 42.7" = 85.4" = just a little over 7ft high
So our field of pallets is roughly 224ft x 432ft x 7ft high.
At 96,768 square feet, it's about 2.2 acres and well over the size of a football field.
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