My morning commute is fairly short and fairly regimented. One of the habits that has been refined to an automatic behavior is my radio listening.
I start with SC-ETV radio until the local programing starts at about 749, then I move over to B-106 (Pop music, local traffic, quick news, weather) until I get to work just before 8am.
Today during their 'humor' portion of the morning news they started talking about the economic recovery act and just how much a trillion dollars is. They mentioned the twelve zeros, the lay 100 dollar bills side by side and circle the earth 30+ time, the number of years a trillion seconds is (30,000+) and other fun facts.
The one they didn't mention in their subtle efforts to discredit the bailout.
A trillion dollars is about how much we have spent on the US military, every year for the last for years (including the war effort costs).
I wonder how and why they missed that 'fun fact'?
Tags
Economics, Iraq
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