What does 4 Trillion dollars look like?

Inspired by the PageTutor article What does one TRILLION dollars look like?, I decided to expand on that a bit.

Listed below are major spending items that Barack Obama has authorized during the first few weeks of his presidency.

$2,000,000,000,000 -- Bank bailout
$1,000,000,000,000 -- Printed by treasury
  $787,000,000,000 -- Stimulus package
+ $410,000,000,000 -- Omnibus bill
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$4,197,000,000,000 -- $4.2 Trillion dollars

Everyone is familiar with the $1 bill...



When stacked neatly on a standard sized pallet to form a 3 1/2 foot cube, it amounts to $1,000,000. A pallet contains ten thousand packets. Each packet contains $1,000 (one hundred $1 bills).


Here is what $64,000,000,000 (64 billion) looks like... The little blob in the lower right corner is an average sized adult male. The stack of money measures 130 feet by 133 feet by 140 feet.


To put this in comparison, a standard sized 18 wheeler semi truck and trailer measures 53 feet in length and 15 feet in height.


Air force one measures 236 feet in length (nose to tail) and 195 feet in width (wingtip to wingtip).


The space shuttle (with external fuel tanks) measures 342 feet tall.


The $4 trillion stack measures 700 feet in length, 700 feet in width, and 333 feet in height!!! This is a total of 163,333,333 cubic feet in volume!! The small speck visible in between the shuttle and the semi truck is a person.


Two space shuttles laid down on their sides would still be 16 feet shorter than the base of the money stack (width or length). Twenty two semi trucks stacked on top of each other would be 3 feet shorter (height) than the stack of money.