Why $11 billion in government overpayments is actually an insignificant amount

The Washington Post: I doubt any American has ever found themselves in a room with a trillion dollars. Mathematicians have pointed out that if you spent a million dollars a day, every day, since the birth of Jesus Christ, you still would not have come close to blowing through $1 trillion.

And yet the U.S. government spent $3.5 trillion just in fiscal year 2014.

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