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Trillion - How much can you get for it?
Posted by Timothy Smith
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Friday, July 17, 2009
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Others have done a much more thorough job of explaining how much a trillion dollars worth of ObamaCare really is but here are a few examples:
at 89 cents each - apx. 112.35 trillion candy bars
at $2.69 a gallon - apx. 371.74 billion gallons of gas
at $4.50 per cup - apx. 222.22 billion cups of gourmet coffee (Starbuck's)
at $14.99 per CD - apx. 66.71 billion compact discs
at $39.95 per pair - apx. 25.03 billion pairs of jeans
at $799.00 per unit - apx. 1.25 billion laptop computers
at $2995.00 per unit - apx. 333.88 million riding lawnmowers
at $14,999.00 per unit - apx. 66.67 million mid-size economy cars
at $138,000.00 per home - apx. 7.24 million average-size houses
Of course, these are estimates not exact prices or precise quantities. As the saying goes: Close enough for government work! ;-)
Keep in mind the trillion dollar figure being tossed around in the halls of Congress is JUST THE STARTING POINT.
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at 89 cents each - apx. 112.35 trillion candy bars
at $2.69 a gallon - apx. 371.74 billion gallons of gas
at $4.50 per cup - apx. 222.22 billion cups of gourmet coffee (Starbuck's)
at $14.99 per CD - apx. 66.71 billion compact discs
at $39.95 per pair - apx. 25.03 billion pairs of jeans
at $799.00 per unit - apx. 1.25 billion laptop computers
at $2995.00 per unit - apx. 333.88 million riding lawnmowers
at $14,999.00 per unit - apx. 66.67 million mid-size economy cars
at $138,000.00 per home - apx. 7.24 million average-size houses
Of course, these are estimates not exact prices or precise quantities. As the saying goes: Close enough for government work! ;-)
Keep in mind the trillion dollar figure being tossed around in the halls of Congress is JUST THE STARTING POINT.
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