Friday, July 29, 2011

What does a trillion dollars look like ?

While the budget battle drags on and we watch as politicians throw our money around like chips in a poker game. Most Americans have a hard time visualizing exactly the incredible amounts of money that our government takes in and wastes.

The folks at http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/ have put up a great visual to give us some sense of what a couple of trillion dollars looks like. It is great way to explain both the debt crisis and the huge sums of money being discussed in Washington.

A Visualization of the U.S. Debt

No comments:

Post a Comment