$2.2 Trillion

Posted on 01/28/2009 at 12:12 pm by JumpyPants

Here’s a sobering infrastructure report by the American Society of Civil Engineers:

Of the 15 areas the engineers looked at, three got worse and only one got better. The three that worsened were all transportation oriented: aviation dropped from a D+ to a D; so did public transit; and America’s intricate roadway system potholed from a D to a D-. Only the energy system improved, from a D to a D+.

In 2005, the engineers said it would cost what would be $1.7 trillion in current dollars to fix what’s broken. Now the pricetag is up to $2.2 trillion.

Putting 2.2 trillion into perspective: someone with $2.2 trillion could literally burn a trillion dollars in cash in a gigantic bonfire, and they’d still have $1.2 trillion.

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  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein

    Here’s some more perspective on a trillion dollars: If you could count one dollar per second, every second of every day, until you’d counted one trillion dollars, it would take you 17 minutes to count $1,000. And counting one dollar per second, every second, you’d have your first billion in just 31.7 years.But to count one trillion dollars, you’d have to count one dollar per second, every second of every day, for 31,709.8 years.THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINE POINT EIGHT YEARS. Fucking hell.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    I prefer to use the CNN method of putting really large numbers in perspective.2.2 trillion dollars is enough to buy 1.1 trillion McDonald’s apple pies.That is enough to give everyone on earth an delicious apple pie and then laugh at them when they ask for another as you horde the remaining 995 billion pies for when times get really tough.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    Jumped up Jesus on skis, Elvis…you freakin’ killjoy.I just realized I can’t possibly eat all my pie!You bastard!

  • gypsysoul

    i am imagining elvis hunched over a smoking calculator with beads of sweat. hehe…

  • MatthewN

    “someone with $2.2 trillion could literally burn a trillion dollars in cash in a gigantic bonfire, and they’d still have $1.2 trillion.”I grinned when I read this. Struck me as the “Captain Obvious” of descriptions.

  • SillyGit

    cousinaviI don’t think you have to worry about not having enough time. If you ate one pie every second for a couple of days, you would pull a Mr. Creosote and explode. Avoid the wafer thin mints.

  • GItheScholar

    GUNs and BUTTERAnybody know how much we have spent on the Iraq War? I have heard 1-3 trillion dollars. This would be guns. Not one GOP member except Chuck Hagel bitched about this spending.The infrastructure repairs needed in this country are 2.2 trillion dollars. But our new President is going to have publicly crucify Eric Cantor will a flame thrower to get the GOP to support any domestic projects in this country. Please for the love of God I just want my condoms(stem cell research to make vaccines against STDs), cigarettes, my guns and the fear of driving on bridges to go away.

  • http://www.politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ politicalpartypooper

    Well GI,I’m pretty sure we won’t be buying guns with this stimulus package. Congress isn’t in to arming people who hate them.