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Jack Kingston: “That if Mr. Cunningham's jet was flying overhead at the speed of sound and spewing out a roll of dollar bills behind it…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1997
That if Mr. Cunningham's jet was flying overhead at the speed of sound and spewing out a roll of dollar bills behind it, the plane would have to fly for more than 15 years before it wheeled out $1.6 trillion, and I do not think you have that much fuel in any plane. And here is another way to look at it, and this is from the Wall Street Journal 2 years ago. Newspaper tabloids say that O.J. Simpson paid about $55,000 a day in legal bills, $55,000, and actually this is for the criminal trial and not for the civil trial. The trial would last 26 million days or about 100,000 years before O.J. had spent $1.6 trillion.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the enormity of $1.6 trillion in relation to legal expenses and hypothetical scenarios.

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