What Could You Get For $845 Billion?
February 5, 2013
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said today that our budget deficit for 2013 is projected to be $845 billion.
That means Barack Obama’s government, despite all the money it takes in from taxpayers, will spend $845 billion more than it takes in this year.
This is yet another example of President Obama’s abject failure to rein in spending.
However, it did get us thinking…what exactly could you get with $845 billion?
Here are a few of our ideas. Feel free to suggest your own!
151,162,790,697 short stacks at IHOP (if they weren’t giving them away today)
Deborah Raven – Getty Images
14,322 Gulfstream6 Private Jets
Business Wire via Bloomberg
76 Days Worth Of Super Bowl Commercials
Pete Souza – The White House
563 Trips To Space
3,970,864 2013 Bentley Continental Convertibles
Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
1,536,391,570 iPad 3s
Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images
Half Of Canada
