Six dollars
... set side by side, roughly 12 inches long, and 7½" inches wide. Very
roughly, a little longer, but narrower than a sheet of writing paper
copier paper.
$6 will buy you 3½ gallons of gas
(at $1.69 a gallon).
Three Thousand
dollars ... roughly the thickness of a ream of paper, 2 inches
thick or 500 sheets. If you made a single stack, it would be a foot high.
You could buy one really top of the
line notebook computer for this pile of cash.
Source : Apple.com
Seventy-Two
Thousand dollars ... is about the size of a whole box
of copier paper. This is equal to twice the amount of money the average
person in Brooklyn, New York, makes in a year. If you made a single stack,
it would be a stack 24 feet high.
Source : Scientific American, Sept. 2002
Three-Hundred-and-Sixty
Thousand dollars ... A stack 5 feet tall. Shorter than the
average American man. If you made a single stack, it would be 120 feet high.
You can buy a pretty nice house almost anywhere in
America for that kind of cash.
Nine Million
dollars ... The pile is 5 feet tall, 10 feet long, and 6¼ feet wide.
A single stack of dollar bills in this amount would be 3000 feet high.
This stack is comparable in size to a
single compact car. You could buy 505 of them for the amount,
though, with enough cash left over to fill up the gas tanks of 139 of them.
Source : Volkswagen
Source : Woman
Motorist, based on a gas price of $1.69
Nine-Hundred
Million dollars... This
pile is now 20 feet tall, 50 feet long, and 31¼ feet wide. The single
stack of dollar bills is now climbing to 300,000 feet tall, or 56.8 miles
tall.
This pile is about half as long as a
conventional tennis court.
This load of money will buy you 600
million loaves of bread, or 225 million six-packs of soda in Barbados.
Eighty-Seven Billion
dollars ... This is what the President is
asking for. It is
100 feet tall, 250 feet long, and 125 feet wide. A stack of singles
would be 28,998,000 feet, or over 5,492 miles, or more than twice the
distance between Washington DC and Los Angeles, California. (2,650 miles,
one-way).
A Boeing 737-200 jet is 100 feet long. You
could fit 2 of those jets nose to nose along the length of this
pile.
$87 billion is more than all of the states'
current budget deficits, combined.
$87 billion is more than twice the amount we're spending on Homeland Security.
Source : Distance
between Major U.S. Cities in Miles
Source : Aircraft
& Powerplant Corner
Source : TomPaine.com
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
One-Hundred-Sixty-Six Billion dollars ... this equals the
total amount of money
President Bush wants to spend in Iraq & Afghanistan by the
beginning of October, 2004 : the $87 billion he wants, plus
the $79 billion he's already spent.
You can barely see the man down in
the corner.
This pile is 500 feet long at its longest
point, which is quite a bit longer
than an American football field. The roof opening of the Reliant
Stadium in Houston, Texas, is 500 feet long. This pile of money is still 100 feet tall,
and 125 feet wide. If you stacked the bills in a single column, it would be 55,333,200 feet tall,
or almost 10,500 miles, or 1.68 times the distance between Washington DC and
Baghdad, Iraq.
$166 billion is $568 for every
man, woman and child in the United States. It's $6,385 for every person in
Iraq.
Source : Houston Architecture Info
Source : How
Far is it?
Source : U.S.
Census Bureau PopClock
Source : Iraqi
Demographics
"Our administration is concerned about deficits, and the way they deal with deficits is you want to control spending. And I hope Congress lives up to their words. When they talk about deficits, they can join us in making sure we don't overspend. They can join us and make sure that the appropriations process is focused on those issues that -- those items that are absolutely necessary to the American people. I'm pleased that members of the Congress are talking about deficits. It means they understand their obligations not to overspend the people's money."
President Bush,
Remarks
by the President in Photo Opportunity with His Cabinet
Jan. 6,
2003
