What, exactly does $789 billion look like?

And that is the question of the day. You can read the New York Times' writeup on the proposed stimulus bill that's going up in the capitol today, here. The bill proposes a stimulus of $789 billion to pull the country out of its slump. Let's put that number into a little perspective.

This is 1,000 pennies.

This is 1,000,000 pennies. The box is roughly the size of a full-grown man, about 6'2".

This is how roughly 1,000,000,000 pennies would look compared to an average human:



And this is how roughly 100,000,000,000 pennies would look:


Now, multiply that football field by roughly seven and three quarters, and that's the amount of money we're looking at. It isn't real, of course, but it's no less insane. Wow.