What does a billion dollars look like?

[dave_rhino]

On September 7th, 2003, President Bush announced on national television that he was going to ask the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the fiscal year, beginning October 1, 2004, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since before then, to the end of September, 2007, the United States has dedicated approximately $315 billion dollars to the cause.

But these amounts of money are an impossible for anyone to visualize. Let's have a look....

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

Holy shit that's a large pile of money...

 

[free4440273]

Quite amazing. Now i know that i have a crap job:1orglaugh

 

[Christmas_Ape]

I'll buy that for a dollar!

 

[senob44]

Very good article. It was very well done. All boils down to another very well-deserved criticism of Bush.

 

[Imagine]

Is it common practice for congress to spend $315b in one dollar bills?

 

[L3ggy]

Thats one big pile of shit...erm...money...

 

[AFA]

If I had a nickle for evertime that guy put his foot in his mouth, I'd have a pile like that!

 

[dave_rhino]

Is it common practice for congress to spend $315b in one dollar bills?

Well it wouldn't be interesting if it just showed a picture of a credit card or cheque...

 

[Imagine]

Doing it in pennies would be interesting.

 

[AFA]

Well it wouldn't be interesting if it just showed a picture of a credit card or cheque...

Usually when I'm planning on spending $315 Billion, I don't bother to carry cash either.

 

[senob44]

Doing it in pennies would be interesting.

:eek:
Why do you think they keep them around when minting them costs more than face value? It's for ideas and moments like this.

 

[free4440273]

Doing it in pennies would be interesting.

Do those still exist. Christ, i never knew inflation was that low

 

[D-rock]

That makes me want to go build forts with stacked bundles of money.

 

[AFA]

Pretty soon in the US, you'll need a stack like that to buy a loaf of bread if this dickhead economic system continues.

 

[D-rock]

Pretty soon in the US, you'll need a stack like that to buy a loaf of bread if this dickhead economic system continues.

At least everybody will have a good backup to wipe their ass with if they run out of toilet paper.

 

[Legzman]

Holly Fuck! That's a lot of green!!!

 

[Torre82]

Makes me want to take out everybody around me and then kill myself.

Mountains and mountains... of stupidity.

 

[bigbadbrody]

This is sad but true

 

[Supafly]

If you combine that piles with the numbers of innocent people that got killed there in Afghanistan and Iraq, that ain't a good deal.

Iraq Body Count

 

[Nester6]

http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/

Holy shit that's a large pile of money...

Jenna Fuckin Haze 1 billion bucks!