Whenever I hear people mention deficits of trillions of dollars, or trillions spent on the military, I always remember this quote I read a while ago: if you spent 1 million of today's dollars per day, since 0 AD, you would have still not come close to spending a trillion dollars. You'd be close to 750 billion.
Whenever I hear people mention deficits of trillions of dollars, or trillions spent on the military, I always remember this quote I read a while ago: if you spent 1 million of today's dollars per day, since 0 AD, you would have still not come close to spending a trillion dollars. You'd be close to 750 billion.
Helps put it into perspective.