I think that I could shake a stick at a pretty large pile of money. How about you?

I’ve seen those game shows where they roll out a table with one million dollars in cash on it. I’m pretty sure I could shake a stick at that.

Roll out ten tables, and I could shake a stick at all of them. Pile it all up on one table, and I still think I could shake a stick at it.

I bet if you took an area fifty foot wide by fifty foot long and stacked money fifty feet high that that would be a lot of money. Billions maybe. And, I’m sure I could shake a stick at it.

I think I could shake a stick at a pile of money in any size. How big would a pile of money need to be for you to not be able to shake a stick at it? Stars are pretty big, and there are a lot of stars in the sky. Yet, I can still stand outside and shake a stick at them. If you had piles of money the size of stars, therefore, I could shake a stick at, well, I guess that might be close to a gazillion dollars. Or more! Of course, I wouldn’t be able to shake a stick at the stars facing the other side of the Earth, so I guess there is a limit to how much money you can shake a stick at. But, I think I could live comfortably on a gazillion dollars, even with the current rate of inflation.

Of course, I’d lose a lot of that to taxes, but those taxes would pay off the national debt and fund a whole bunch of stuff. So, you should be pretty grateful that I can shake a stick at a pretty good amount of money.

But, don’t blame me when Congress spends it all, and they come looking to me for a bailout. I don’t care how many sticks they shake at me–they’re not getting the rest of my money!

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