How Much is a Trillion

We are in an age where we bandy about many terms which, before, would have been deemed ridiculous. One in particular is the number One Trillion. BuryUs Obama has brought this term to life in a very dangerous way. There is not a trillion dollars in circulation but our wise and benevolent government has managed to earmark the sum of 2 trillion (give or take a billion or two) to "spend" 2 trillions over the next 2 years.

So how much is a trillion? Here is an easy illustration: In my home city of San Antonio, TX there are approximately 1 million men women and children within the city limits proper. If each of these individuals were a 1 millionaire - even the homeless and poorest of the poor - that would equal 1 trillion dollars. That's right: 1 trillion is 1 million millions. How much is a million?


That is a dollar for each of those people. Duh, right?

What really troubles me is that our national deficit is projected to be 9 trillion dollars by year's end. That is 2 trillion more than projected by the bad check writers in our nation's capital since may (3 months ago).

One side note: these men and women in government are not "RULERS". They are "REPRESENTATIVES."

Taking over 16% of our economy in the form of nationalized health care; nationalizing our biggest industries and financial institutions; ignoring the will of the people is not the work of representatives but rather a despot or in the least a tyrannical regime. The last time this was done on this scale was during the reign of Adolph Hitler.
I want my country back. You people who believe Obama means change are exactly correct. I could be flip and say pocket change but this is far more serious. our liberties are being stolen. Fascism works only when a crisis becomes so grave that the populace turns to the government for salvation. Obama has no world war like Hitler, Mussolini or even Woodrow Wilson or FDR had. He is creating his own crisis by crushing our economy. If he gave a crap about the economy he would not do those things that any family provider knows. You don't write hot checks and run your credit cards up to the max to float your debts. you save, work harder, and cut your expenses.

I blame Bush as much as anyone for his support of TARP. Why in the hell would anyone throw money into a failing company? You let them fail. Cars will continue to be made, most likely more efficiently. Now the government and the unions own Chrysler and GM. Daimler got the hell out of dodge before this unprecedented blunder. Keep in mind that Daimler is based in a socialist country and they were unwilling to risk their success on an obviously foolhardy move.

Cash for clunkers seems like a good idea to you who don't think it through. You just got your own personal bailout if you took advantage of the program. This mess has cost you and me more than 2 billion dollars so far. How are we going to get that money back? By law these cars have to be destroyed after the fed buys the car.

Our economy and the mechanism that is the make up of our entire way of life is like a fine Swiss watch. Every component has been carefully crafted (by the founding fathers) to work perfectly together. Our current government is working on our fine mechanism with a sledge hammer. If we don't stop them we will not have the luxury of repairing it. We will reach the point where humpty dumpty can not be put back together again.