The Cost of The War On Terror in US$1 Bills
Eighty-Seven Billion dollars … This is what the President is asking for. It is 100 feet tall, 250 feet long, and 125 feet wide. A stack of singles would be 28,998,000 feet, or over 5,492 miles, or a round-trip between Washington DC and Los Angeles, California. (2,650 miles, one-way).
A Boeing 737-200 jet is 100 feet long. You could fit 2 of those jets nose to nose along the length of this pile, and have room to spare.
If we spread the $87 billion over an American football field, we would not be able to see much of the game. The players would be buried in 55 feet of money.
$87 billion is more than all of the states’ current budget deficits, combined. $87 billion is more than twice the amount we’re spending on Homeland Security.
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Shame about that poverty huh!
Anonymous said,
August 27, 2005 at 12:12 am
Better yet, why not calculate it as a pile of nickels?