Mommy what's a Quadrillion Dollars?
• korpisworld.blogspot.comIt looks like one can make an honest living out of frivolous lawsuits.
Last
Wednesday, an article was published revealing that our Federal
government was hit with 489,000 lawsuits stemming from the 2005 Katrina
disaster totaling $3,014,170,389,176,41. That's 3 + QUADRILLION
dollars. Being a math teacher, I occasionally come across very large
numbers (not when counting my paycheck), but even I had forgotten what
comes after a billion. Because of this beyond-astronomical number, I
will not likely soon forget that it is quadrillion.
After
my initial shock at such an unfathomably huge dollar amount that was, I
did the math to find the AVERAGE amount of each lawsuit, hoping this
would bring the number into the realm of reasonableness--it didn't.
With 489,000 claims, that comes out to a staggering 6,163,947,626 per
person. THAT'S 6.1 BILLION DOLLARS EACH FOR ALMOST HALF A MILLION
PEOPLE!!!!! That's equivalent to EVERYONE in Atlanta, Georgia