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How much is a trillion?
If you were the most generous boss in the world, with a workforce of 1,000 people making an average of $1,000 per hour, your payroll would be $1,000,000 per hour, or $40 million for a forty hour week, just over $2B per year. At that rate, it would take nearly 500 years to pay out a trillion.
A hundred dollar bill weighs one gram. A thousand, then weigh a kilogram, and a million weigh a metric ton and are worth $100 million. Ten tons = a billion, and 10,000 tons = a trillion. Currently, the deficit amounts to 15, 000 tons of hundred dollar bills. The budget = 37,000 tons, and the debt is 140,000 tons of hundreds.
Can you imagine a pile of hundreds that weighs 37,000 tons? If you were to load them into a train with a fork lift capable of lifting a ton, and if you could load one every ten minutes, it would take you 370,000 minutes to load that train. That's over 6,000 hours. Working ten hour days, it would take the fork lift operator more than 600 days, nearly two years. Taking only limited time off for vacations, probably working six day weeks, two operators would have to operate two fork lifts loading $100 bills one ton at at time to feed the federal government.
Mind boggling, isn't it?
What's more mind boggling is that the Democratic Party is made up of drunken sailors. They are a childish party of ne'erdowells, whiners, weirdos and golddiggers.