What Will The $3.6 Trillion Obama Budget Buy You?

The Obama Administration's budget is $3.6 billion dollars. Let's take a look at what that money
will buy you.

If you took a single stack of one hundred dollar bills and laid the stack in a long row on the ground starting at the White House, you would pass the Las Vegas Strip.

If you laid the one hundred dollar bills end to end they would go around the world 140 times.

If you wanted to transport the one hundred dollar bills, you'd better have a really big cargo ship, as it's over 33,000 tons of paper.

If you spent $50 every second from the moment Jesus was born until today, you'd still have billions of dollars left over. If you want to visualize it a different way, you could spend about five million dollars a day throughout the entire Christian Era and still have money left over today.

If you took your credit card out of your wallet, handed it to the clerk who would swipe it for a $500 purchase, signed the slip and put it and the card in your wallet, then immediately back out again to repeat the action, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week starting today and continuing nonstop for the next 5,000 years, there would still be money left over.

If you stacked one dollar bills straight up you'd have a tower that would pass the moon.

If you laid the dollar bills end to end you would have a line of money that would stretch from the Earth to the Sun, back to the Earth, back to the Sun, back to the Earth, back to the Sun, back to the Earth and still have lots of money left over.

If you put that money into a standard bank Certificate of Deposit at current rates, the interest alone would be 320 million dollars a day.

You could launch a space shuttle about 8,000 times.

You could feed every man, woman and child on Earth about five hundred McDonald's Happy Meals.

You could "buy the world a Coke". Actually you could buy everyone in the world about a thousand Coca Colas.

You could buy every man, woman and child in America a platinum, diamond studded Rolex Oyster wrist watch.

You could buy every adult male in the USA a new Porsche Cayman.

It would take a supersonic jet flying at the speed of sound, unreeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it almost fifty years to go through it all.

At current pump prices, you could meet the United States' entire gasoline requirements until the year 2162.

You could fully fund the National Cancer Institute until the year 2657.

You could employ every unemployed worker in the United States until the year 2048.

You could buy 61 million Habitat For Humanity houses. If you housed a family consisting of a mom, dad, two kids and a grandparent in each one, you could house the entire population of the USA and still have empty houses.

You could fully pay off the mortgages for 58 million homes facing foreclosure.

You could gold plate every square inch of interstate highway in America ten times over.

Adjusted for inflation (therefore expressed in today's dollars), you could finance 31 Marshall Plans, 16 USA - USSR Space Races, or 6 Vietnam Wars.

You could buy Microsoft 25 times over, or Apple 50 times over. If you wanted to make your own CPUs, you could buy AMD about 2,800 times over. If you wanted some cool electronic devices, why not buy 225 Sony Corporations? And if you were interested in a car company it's enough to buy about 2,600 General Motors. Prefer a car company that's in better financial shape? How about 300 Nissan Motors? Want some nice motorcycles along with your cars? How about 82 Honda Motor Companies? How about buying every team in the National Football League 130 times over? If you really want to have some fun and try to create a black hole that could swallow the Earth, you could really do it in style with your 420 Hadron Colliders.