"Money is no object."
It's a line straight out of gangster movies or stories of political scandals.
Or today's news stories.
Help me out here.
The mega-normous financial bailout was supposedly $700 billion. Then the final bill was said to be $800 billion (or was it more?) with all the sweeteners added to the bill to get it passed. But news stories still tend to say "$700 billion bailout."
Sheesh.
Which is it?
Oh well, what's a hundred billion dollars here or there? (Just ask the folks at A.I.G.)
It's so much beyond our comprehension, does anyone care?
Can some math wizard break it down into something practical, like dollars per minute per adult? Or how may pounds of pasta it would buy? Or Tootsie Rolls? Something!
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