One trillion dollars.

My spouse has a thing for the Tesla, the fascinating, environmentally friendly vehicle that costs over one hundred thousand bucks and makes the Prius look like an overgrown baby buggy.

I was just thinking about his not getting one - and it dawned on me that:

If someone in government liked this car as much as M. does, and they cut the war out totally in Iraq and offered one trillion bucks to the heads of the Tesla car company instead, every single American could have one of these cars.

Better yet, every single person on the planet could have one of these cars.

Perhaps I shouldn't put all the blame of overspending on the Military crowd. For if we examine the actions of Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner we have a system that gave out trillions to the Big Boys On Wall Street, who then went crazy with derivatives and CDS items. So even as I type this we are just one bad day on Wall Street away from another possibility of a Big Long Depression.

And even if we aren't gonna see that Big Long Depression, what about the people in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, who have watched their economies plunge into the abyss, after our Big Boys on Wall Street bet against their economies and their currencies?

Meanwhile Blackwater, Dyson and other Defense Contractors are charging the DOD outrageous sums for such things as $ 100 bucks per each sack of laundry in Iraq.

Maybe you are opposed to the notion of every person on the planet having a Tesla. Too many cars plugging up the roads. Well, how about free universal health care for all then? Or how about getting the magnet train program really off the tracks and into operation?

One trillion dollars. It is real money and it's about time we think about how much one trillion bucks really is.

looks to me like it would only buy 10M autos. Perhaps everone in NYC could have one.

But . . . I sure do like them also. Great performance. Great looks.

And spouse would insist on moving to NYC if only people there would get them.

So I guess there is one upside to the way the economy is working now.