what to do about trillions

     When they write about trillions in the newspaper, it all looks like a lot of zeros. It doesn't really have a meaning to the average person--not even if the average person is certified to teach social studies, as this one is. What I like to do when I read about trillions is to figure out how much money that would mean for every man, woman, and child in America. I round off the population of the United States to 250,000,000 (two hundred and fifty million ), which is a quarter of a billion. That makes four (4) dollars for every man, woman, and child in  America every time someone says "a billion". It makes four thousand (4,000) dollars every time someone says "a trillion".