On the recordJuly 10, 2002
may I say the gentleman has brought back his chart on the cost of drugs, and that is an astronomical figure, $1.8 trillion. In fact, there is a book that was written in Georgia several years ago that is called The Coming Economic Earthquake. You may have read it, a Georgia author, so I have to brag on him. He is saying the difference between 1 million and 1 trillion is that if you took $1,000 bills, to stack them up to get to $1 million, stack one $1,000 bill on top of another $1,000 bill, it would be about 4 inches high. That would become $1 million at 4 inches. To get to $1 trillion, it would be 33 miles high. People do not understand that.
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