$3,000,000,000,000 - three TRILLION dollars

[Hugabear]

And this president has the NERVE to say that his MULTI-TRILLION dollar budget will bring spending under control! What a fucking liar - and the sad part is, he'll probably get what he wants, because our Democratic leaders in Congress are too spineless to offer more than token resistance. Oh, they'll bitch and moan about it, they'll huff and puff mightily - but in the end, they'll tuck their tales between their legs and give * what he wants. Hell, they'll even add their own projects to the budget, even further inflating it.

Has this country become this desensitized? We're not talking about Monopoly money here, we're talking real fucking money.

[madrchsod]

1. let`s focus on the real problem

will our two candidates say or do anything to stop this madness? maybe they should go back to work and show some leadership to the people who employ them..

[Skink]

2. That's why Mccain should be President.

Let them clean it up.

[kirby]

3. Its $3,100,000,000,000 - THREE TRILLIONS 100 BILLION

You left off $100 billion dollars.

[Hugabear]

5. Good point

Compared to 3 trillion, a hundred billion is a very small number. Just goes to show you how out-of-control this president is.

And he belongs to the "fiscally responsible" party. :rofl:

[halobeam]

4. how much is 3 trillion?

just saw this in WaPo (I think)...

1 million a year for 3 million years.

17,000 round trips to the sun = 3 trllion miles

or counting one count per second, it would take 95,000 years to count to 3 trillion

[Hugabear]

8. More info...

It would take a spacecraft traveling at the speed of light over half a year to travel that many miles.

[halobeam]

11. can't even wrap my head around "the speed of light" lol

[madokie]

15. in this morning paper

it is 120 million trips around the earth, If it were divided up there are about 6.8 billion people on the earth and every single living person would get 441 bucks, if it was only to the 300 millions americans we would each get 10,000 bucks. Counting to 3 trillion at a rate of one number a second would take almost 95,000 years.

[DU9598]

6. Violence Against Women Funding

Well, he did strip all funding for Violence Against Women Programs. This means our local domestic violence shelter would close unless the Dems put the money back in.

[indepat]

7. $3 trillion ain't so much when viewed in context of where the dollar has been

going and what it's likely to be worth in coming years, the next decade, the next generation following more than a quarter century of 'puke fiscal and tax maladministration. Don't we all feel so much stronger and safer as a nation. :D

[Desertrose]

9. Might as well be Monopoly money.

Seriously 3 trillion?

Thank god they can just print more up.Hey,maybe they can just put it on a credit card?

OK... 3 Trillion and they can't spare any for healthcare for the people they get the trillions from but the war machine keeps rolling along.

When the hell are people gonna wake up & DEMAND some changes??

Oh wait, we're too busy fighting over if Hil's tears are real or Obama smokes cigarettes.

:banghead:

[Golden Raisin]

10. Utterly fiscally irresponsible and insane.

This regime is deliberately bankrupting this country. Of course NONE of the current candidates, of either party, will stand up and scream bloody murder about this. Candidates and Congress should hang their collective heads in shame.

[JosephSchmo]

12. Don't worry

with our dollar being raped, three trillion dollars is just chump change.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. He's a businessman who is using the country like a shady investment.

And profiting from it, leaving the bill for us to pay. This is what he's always done. Google up "bush failed businesses".

Don't people get that he's mocking us to our faces, and always has been? That he's not suddenly going to begin doing good things for the country? A fox in the henhouse does not suddenly egg sitting.

[madokie]

14. three million millions

damn wheres mine