What is 1 trillion?

If I gave you 100,000 dollars would you be able to change your life? Buy a new car.. Buy a house… pay off all your debt.

What if you had 10 x 100,000? That is 1,000,000 (1 million) That could seriously change your life… you could probably quit working if you lived fiscally and depending on your age.

What about 1,000 x 1,000,000? That would be 1,000,000,000 (1 billion)… you definitely would never have to work again. Nor would your close reletives. You and your children and grandchildren would be set for life.

What about 1,000 x 1,000,000,000? That would be 1,000,000,000,000 (1 TRILLION) There is no way in your lifetime, children's lifetime, or grandchildren lifetime could the money be spent.

Our country is currently 11,000,000,000,000 dollars in debt. And our projected deficit for this year is 2,000,000,000,000 and Obama just did 1,000,000,000,000 in "stimulus" spending. And Obama is now requestion for 3,600,000,000,000 for additional spending in 2010.

The new budget has over 9,000 unnecessary and wasteful earmarks including $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa, $2 million for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii, $475,000 for a parking garage in Provo City, Utah, $300,000 to build a Montana World Trade Center, $150,000 for a rodeo museum in South Dakota. $200,000 for tattoo removal in California… need I go on…

Please call your local representative and tell them to stop the spending this is not what we elected these people for! While campaigning Barack Obama said, "We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." All this hope and change wasn’t meant to be this was it!