Personally, 1 trillion dollars is such a large figure it is hard for me to grasp just how big it is. I mean I deal with money in terms of tens, twenties, hundreds and thousands. You get past that and start throwing numbers around like billions, and now trillions and it’s sort of lost on me. In principle I am opposed to government bail outs of any scale and I’m opposed to any and all national debt. But I was still having a hard time with the numbers involved in the latest fiasco. I therefore found this illustration most helpful in putting things in their proper context. I suggest you take a good long and hard look at it as well. This is the amount of our great, great grandchildren’s money we have spent:

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?