The Size of the Stimulus
We all know that $780 billion dollars is a LOT of money….but how much is it in architectural terms? Check out this cool visualization sent to me by Ming Hu in the DC office (Hi Ming – thanks for the great visualization!) – haven’t verified the accuracy and don’t know where it originated, but it’s pretty interesting nonetheless:
Now double that. And add $170 Billion. That’s the price tag of the bailout…and equivalent to the size of one of the NYC World Trade Center Towers.
Disclaimer: Just to be 100% clear: I did not create this graphic – it came to me in an unidentified email forward. If you are the author, please let me know and I will either credit you or remove post per your instructions. Thanks!
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Jon Stewart said that if you sewed all the $100 bills together, “you would make a blanket for Jupiter.”
If I get a tax break out of this thing somehow, I am certainly going to make a cash-sweater. Just like Justin’s holiday sweater, but more pimp.
Oooo I want one too! Maybe instead of a sweater a skirt…. Yes, a cash pencil skirt. Awesome.
“…and equivalent to the size of one of the NYC World Trade Center Towers…”
That is an eerie, and telling, comparison.
We could bye 160.000 mega watt solar pannels wich would power up 53.333 cities the size of MASDAR city: the first zero carbon emission city in the world being built in Abu Dhabi, UAE as we speek.
that means we can save:
15.000 (ammount of CO2 saved by Masdar city per year)x 53.333, Ironically, that’s 800.000.000 tons of CO2 per year.
Add to that how many new jobs and services created around the world. and how many oil related war expanses we will eliminate.
Thanks to Paul at Archinet for the link: http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=85874_0_24_0_C
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Good to know what my actually physical worth is… at 6ft tall – roughly $432,000. Now if only I actually had that much in the bank…
Be sure to check out what the stimulus means for our neighbors to the north: http://hoklife.com/2009/02/22/stimulus-plan_explanation-for-some-of-us/
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right… i was thinking how little of a pile of cash my salary is, even in $1’s
I love this graphic! Now if only we could transform our buildings into piles of cash…
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i guess the bail-out would be the other twin tower. at least we can at least say that we didn’t let bush’s cronies steal the OTHER half.
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” (Dr. Adrian Rogers)
I’m ok with the rich working for free.
j/k
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