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A single stack of dollar bills in this amount would be 3,000 feet high. You could buy 505 of them for the amount, though, with enough cash left over to fill up the gas tanks of 139 of them.
The single stack of dollar bills is now climbing to 300,000 feet, or 568 miles. This load of money will buy you 600 million loaves of bread, or 225 million six-packs of soda in Barbados.
You could fit 2 of those jets nose to nose along the length of this pile, and have room to spare. If we spread the $87 billion over an American football field, we would not be able to see much of the game.
This pile is 500 feet long at its longest point, which is quite a bit longer than an American football field. The roof opening of the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, is 500 feet long. If you stacked the bills in a single column, it would be 55,333,200 feet tall, or almost 10,500 miles, or 168 times the distance between Washington DC and Baghdad, Iraq.
Our administration is concerned about deficits, and the way they deal with deficits is you want to control spending. When they talk about deficits, they can join us in making sure we dont overspend. They can join us and make sure that the appropriations process is focused on those issues that - those items that are absolutely necessary to the American people. Im pleased that members of the Congress are talking about deficits. It means they understand their obligations not to overspend the peoples money. President Bush, Remarks by the President in Photo Opportunity with His Cabinet Jan.
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