MONOPOLY MONEY

Can I hear an Amen?

By Coach Dave Daubenmire
September 25, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was on Earth.

It will take the United States government 3 hours and 40 minutes 

to spend a billion dollars.

A trillion is 999.9 billion. It is almost impossible to conceive. If you 

had gone into business on the day Jesus was born, and your business 

lost a million dollars a day, day in and day out, 365 days a year, it 

would have taken you until October 2737 to lose a trillion dollars.

A trillion is a million million.

To count out One Trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) dollars nonstop 

without sleeping or eating it would take Thirty-Nine Thousand 

(39,000) years.

If you spent $1000 every second, day and night, you wouldn't hit 

a trillion dollars for 30 years.

If you asked for a trillion dollars at your bank in $100 bills, it would 

make a stack 800 miles high.

Laid end-to-end, a trillion dollars worth of $1 bills would extend 

from the Earth to the Sun.

It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling 

out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out 

one trillion dollar bills.

If you were locked in a vault and you could keep every dollar bill

 you initialed, (we're assuming that you initial one bill every 

second and that you don't need to eat, sleep or take comfort 

breaks!) Twelve days of non-stop effort would earn you a 

million dollars.

120 days would give you $10 million.

1200 days - $100 million. That's over three years to get a paltry 

$100 million ... Still a long way to go ...

After 31.7 years, you'd be a billionaire.

But wait, there's more ... we're still only at the billionaire stage

 ... Keep initialing!

After initialing a dollar bill every second without stopping, it 

would take you 31,709.8 years to get to your first trillion.

I know what a $100,000 house looks like. I've seen lots of them. 

And, I suppose I can comprehend a million dollars. If I picture a 

city block with ten houses, each worth $100,000, that's a 

million dollars.

So how many blocks would I have to fill with these $100,000 

houses to make a trillion dollars. Would it be the whole 

neighborhood? The city? More?

If someone built block after block of $100,000 houses, ten houses 

to a block, ten blocks to a mile—that's a hundred blocks per square

 mile—how big would the project be when it reached a trillion 

dollars in value? It would be 10,000 square miles—that's bigger 

than the State of Maryland.

And how about the size of the national debt? How much land 

would we have to cover with $100,000 houses to equal the 

$7 trillion debt? Picture Missouri. The 275 miles from St. 

Louis to Kansas City—covered with houses. The 325 miles 

from the Arkansas line to the Iowa line—covered with houses.

 All the farms, all the lakes, all the rivers—covered with 

$100,000 houses. That's what 7 trillion dollars looks like.

If your annual salary or wage is $50,000 it would take you 

20 million years to earn a trillion dollars.

One trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) is enough money:

To buy everybody living in Los Angeles at least one Lamborghini.

To buy 88,052, 394' custom mega yachts; enough to stretch around 

¼ of the world.

To buy everyone living in Belize and Malta a Manhattan apartment.

To give one out of every two men in the United States a Men’s 

Presidential Rolex watch.

To buy every woman in the United States a Tiffany Diamond 

Starfish Pendant.

To get two Mitsubishi 73? HDTVs for every household in America.

To send everybody in America on an all-inclusive vacation to Tahiti 

(and some people can stay a few extra days).

$1 trillion is enough money for everyone in Buffalo, NY to buy 

their own 65-acre island in Panama.

A person given $1 million a year to spend would need 1 million 

years to blow $1 trillion.

There are about 6.8 billion people in the world, meaning that 

every living person would get $441 if the U.S. government's 

budget was divided up. If the money was split among the 300 

million Americans, everyone would take home $10,000.

Counting to a trillion at a rate of one number a second (no sleeping) 

would take almost 32,000 years.

Tax his land, Tax his wage, Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule. 

Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. 

Tax his ties, Tax his shirts, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think. 

Tax his booze, Tax his beers, If he cries, Tax his tears. 

Tax his bills, Tax his gas, Tax his notes, Tax his cash.

Tax him good and let him know That after taxes, he has no dough. 

If he hollers, Tax him more, Tax him until he’s good and sore. 

Tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he lays. 

Put these words upon his tomb, ‘Taxes drove me to my doom!’ 

And when he’s gone, We won’t relax, We’ll be after the inheritance TAX!

Accounts Receivable Tax, Building Permit Tax, CDL License Tax, 

Cigarette Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Dog License Tax, Federal 

Income Tax, Fishing License Tax, Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA), 

Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Gasoline Tax, Hunting License Tax, 

Inheritance Tax, Inventory Tax, IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax), 

IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax), Liquor Tax, Luxury Tax, Marriage 

License Tax, Medicare Tax, Property Tax, Real Estate Tax, Service 

charge taxes, Social Security Tax, Road Usage Tax (Truckers), Sales 

Taxes, Recreational Vehicle Tax, School Tax, State Income Tax, State 

Unemployment Tax (SUTA), Telephone Federal Excise Tax, Telephone 

Federal Universal Service Fee Tax, Telephone; Federal, State and 

Local Surcharge Tax, Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax, 

Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax, Telephone 

State and Local Tax, Teleph one Usage Charge Tax, Utility Tax, 

Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Watercraft 

Registration Tax, Well Permit Tax, Workers Compensation Tax.


Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago.
And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle

class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. 

What happened? Can you spell ‘politicians’