Perspective: How much is a trillion? A trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. That's 12 zeroes. One trillion is one million times one million. If we filled Michigan's football stadium with people (all 100,000+ seats occupied) and then gave every person there one thousand dollars, we'd have to fill the stadium every weekend for roughly the next 40,000 years before we could have passed out a trillion dollars. Still not good enough? How about this: NBA superstar LeBron James earns about $40 million a year ... Read More

I am not surprised to read the Senator from Oklahoma's remarks regarding the "Stimulus" Package that will likely pass: "While I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to bring down the price tag of this bill, the fact is we still face a trillion dollar spending bill. Making it worse, the bill is 93% spending and only 7% stimulation. Over the past few days I have fought to include more in the way of real stimulus through higher percentage of infrastructure ... Read More