What 3.5 trillion looks like

 

Last updated 10/27/2021 at 7:55am



This morning as I was reading a book titled “Prairie Fires”, a book about Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser, I came upon an interesting “visual” showing how much three and a half trillion would look like.

In June of 1875, a swarm of locusts came into the Midwest. Having telegraph, it was determined that this swarm was 110 miles wide, 1,800 miles long and between a quarter to a half mile thick, covering 198,000 square miles, an area equal to the area of the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont combined. The cloud of locusts consisted of some 3-1/2 trillion insects.

I thought of the so-called Infrastructure Bill Congress is trying to pass that would cost us, the taxpayers, $3.5 trillion. Kind of puts it in perspective.

Jack Zielsdorf

Grand Coulee

 

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