Whenever a politician tries to describe exactly how much $1 trillion is, they always end up using useless analogies like: What was going on a trillion seconds ago, or how many times a stack of a trillion one-dollar bills would wrap around the moon. All that tells you is that 1 trillion is a fucking shit-load, but you already knew that. The problem is, when you think about money, you think about how much shit you could buy with it. Is it enough to buy a computer, enough to buy a car, enough to buy a house? That's how the deficit needs to be explained:

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