Banking Bailout - How much is $700,000,000,000
Big numbers are hard for people to process. 700 billion can start to sound like 300 billion, or 900 million for that matter. It becomes like sand grains or moon strands, magically big, past the point of counting; an amount you sit with a nephew and contemplate in wonder.
- It is one third of the total amount of money received by the federal government in 2007, including social security, income tax, corporate tax, and all other receipts.
- It is nine times the amount spent on education in 2007.
- It is 35 times the amount spent on all foreign aid in most years.
- It is $140 billion more than has been spent on the
- It is $120 billion more than that spent on social security benefits.
- It is 7,000 times bigger than the Sierra club’s yearly budget.
- Its over twice the amount of all money given to all charitable organizations in the
- It is more than $100 for every person in the world.
Ohhh, and don’t forget where this money is coming from. We are either borrowing it from other countries through government bonds (
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$100,000,000 8 months to pay off this or
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