Nanaimo-Info-blog: What One Billion Dollars Looks Like

One Billion Dollars
$1,000,000,000.00
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The above display was created by artist Michael Marcovici to graphically show exactly what one billion dollars looks like in cold hard cash.

You are looking at twelve pallets which contain 10 million $100 bills which totals one billion dollars.

Now consider that our federal government is planning a deficit this year of over 50 billion dollars and imagine the above picture containing 50 times as many pallets!!

The Canadian taxpayer is giving General Motors 10 billion dollars, or 10 times as much as you see above! Click here if your imagination can’t handle it.

To give you an idea of how big those pallets are, they are about 40 inches tall or 101 cm. or a little taller than the average kitchen counter height.

It is little wonder they don’t deal in cash or gold for that matter any more. They just deal in numbers written on a piece of paper..

It makes the mind wobble!

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