So what does a trillion dollars look like?

[scubasteven25]

Pretty good website to put it into perspective.

The whole stimulus package is scary. I just hope and pray that it works because at this point all we can do is grin and bear it.

[BadtotheBow]

To be honest, I dont want any part of a handout, not a sack full, bag full, truck full or pallet full.

In return, I would expect the government to keep their hands off whatever I've managed to put together myself...

completely agree

[hawkusmc]

The spooky part is that it is OUR money.
Let's see just how America feels in the next 2 yrs. when it's election time again. That's the big one. The presidential election to me, is a popularity contest.
Do we get out and vote or stay home, gripe, and watch American Idol?

[Texas Techsan]

Wow that's a big stack of money.

[Bill]

Bush did $720 Billion & last week it was another $787 Billion!!! Both are WAY outta line, wrong is wrong and we get to pay for it. No telling how much will actually be stolen by the banks in the 1st bailout and the auto industry in the 2nd bailout!

Here's where I got the $9.7 billion #, from a Bloomberg article. I'm getting tired of hearing in Cali that the current president didn't cause the problem, so the bailout money and drop in the Dow Jones since he was elected are not his work.

U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailout Programs (Update1)

By Mark Pittman and Bob Ivry

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages.

The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent almost $3 trillion over the past two years and pledged up to $5.7 trillion more. The Senate is to vote this week on an economic-stimulus measure of at least $780 billion. It would need to be reconciled with an $819 billion plan the House approved last month.

Only the stimulus bill to be approved this week, the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program passed four months ago and $168 billion in tax cuts and rebates enacted in 2008 have been voted on by lawmakers. The remaining $8 trillion is in lending programs and guarantees, almost all under the Fed and FDIC. Recipients’ names have not been disclosed.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok

[fritztown]

Haven't checked the thread yet, but:
a trillion dollar bills, if stacked on each other starting from earth, would reach the moon...twice.
if you spent a million dollars a day since the day Jesus was born, you would have yet to spend a trillion...

[flatlander]

To be honest, I dont want any part of a handout, not a sack full, bag full, truck full or pallet full.

In return, I would expect the government to keep their hands off whatever I've managed to put together myself...

AMEN!!! The phrase 'Don't Tread On Me' comes to mind.