For all the talk of the economy, and the millions and billions and trillions of dollars in the US budget, it is hard to get a conceptual grasp of what the scale of the expenditures are.
A college student does a really good job of putting it in perspective, and does it in a minute and 38 seconds.
I pulled out my calculator and checked the student’s premise and it looks right to me. The 2010 Federal Budget was $3.55 Trillion, (check it on WikiPedia HERE ) and if you take $90 worth of pennies, and let 5 pennies represent $2 Billion…it all works out to scale.
Watch the video HERE.