And how long will it take to pay off the $1.4 trillion deficit (not counting things that aren’t included in the ‘budget’)? That’s $1.4 trillion for ’09 alone. And less than half the size of the tax increase over the next 10 years.
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This reminds me of John’s post with a Verizon CSR discussing about money
Someone please post a link to it cause it’s funny as heck 
The old saying goes: “Riches to Rags in Three Generations.”
The people running the show adopted the thinking of the children of the wealthy, that is, “Oh Daddy’s money will never run out, so there is nothing to worry about.”
Trust-fund baby thinking has taken over the minds of those in charge. We are doomed.
found it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt1w4iRNWLA
Re #14, bobbo, it was a trick question… one that I failed (and I think I dragged you into the same dimensional void). My initial answer was the assumption that the answer would be astronomical… to reinforce the notion of a huge US deficit. So I multiplied the million times the 1.5 trillion… without really thinking about it. In actual fact the answer is a puny 1500 pixels… 1.5 trillion divided by a million.
So… US citizens, I implore you to relax and take this all in stride. After all, you deficit is merely 1500 pixels. Just send an iPad to China… and tell them to keep the change.
Is this a test of how mathematical literate Dvorak readers are? If you have a 1200 x 1600 resolution monitor then it would take :
1,000,000,000,000 / (1200 x 1600) =
520,833 monitors to display a trillion pixels.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.
–Lazarus Long, “Time Enough for Love”, (Robert A. Heinlein)
I guess 1 out of 25 is the ratio here.
± said, “it would take… 520,833 monitors to display a trillion pixels… Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.”
Well, um… sorry to break this to you, but the intention is not to show an area 1.5 trillion pixels. It’s to show a proportional representation of 1500 pixels representing 1.5 trillion dollars at 1 million dollars per pixel.
So, what species did you say you were partly?
(FYI… the original gif actually has 1.5 million pixels in the 1.5 trillion dollar area.)
#23 Theone, thanks man. Cracked me up.
Reminds me of the gal at Tim Horton’s yesterday. My bill came to $4.19. Gave her a $5 and 2 dimes. She couldn’t figure it out. She finally had to call the manager. At least this manager understood — one loonie and one cent.
U. Dave — nice graphic. Really puts it in perspective.
Bobbo, Skeptic,
my wife is a Brit. We have been married 25+ years and she recently realised that when I say a billion it’s a thousand million to her.
I really liked Bobbo’s analogy of missing/hitting the space rendevous. Kind of like the metric/imperial systems.
speaking of metric/imperial, remember the Gimli Glider
http://tinyurl.com/byhjh
Canucklehead, thanks for the Gimli link. I enjoyed that.
thats 15 million pixels. hell thats a lot of deficit.
sorry that 1.5 million pixels missed a point :p.
I cant wrap my head around 1.5 trillion dollars. ridiculous.
We’re all gonna die…
Good…