How much is a trillion dollars?

Some things lack true dimension until we compare them with something tangible, like the length of eternity or how much is a trillion dollars! Suppose you were to earn 1 dollar per second 24 hours each day. In approximately 11.5 days you would have accumulated a million dollars, in 32 years a billion dollars and you would have to wait 32,000 years to accumulate a trillion dollars. To pay off our current national debt your wait would be roughly 448,000 years. You might be grey headed by then!
Or suppose you were to be paid in new crisp 100 dollar bills for a job. If your salary was 1,000,000 you would be able to easily fit that amount in a regular sized brief case. However if a trillion dollars is more your fancy you would need over 2 acres of land on which to place a cube 7 feet high of crisp bills.
The point has been made a million times, no pun intended, in a lot of different ways, that the consequences of our reckless spending will have an effect on someone, most likely our children, grandchildren, and several generations to follow!
Recklessly spending our lives has consequences as well, and they don’t just last 448,000 years, they last for eternity………