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Based on current federal spending plans and tax policy, the deficit is expected to reach nearly $1.89 trillion between 2005 and 2014, up from prior predictions of $1.4 trillion in the next decade.

Scary huh. How much is a trillion? I got this from a chain mail:

Here’s what a trillion looks like: 1,000,000,000,000.

It is estimated that if you counted normally, "One, two, three ... ," it would take you 200,000 years to count to one trillion.

One trillion seconds ago - 31,688 years -Neanderthals stalked the plains of Europe.

If you had gone into business on the day Jesus was born and you lost $1 million a day, 365 days a year, it would take you until October 2737 to lose a trillion dollars.

Western civilization has not been around for one trillion seconds.

If you stacked up one trillion dimes, you would have three stacks that reach the moon, and have plenty left over.