$4.2 Billion is a lot of money. How much is it? Here is an incomplete list of other things that cost that much:

• 19 of Sarah Palin’s “Bridges to Nowhere”
• The Gross National Product of Malawi
• The Ford Motor Company (as of Nov. 17, 2008)
• Total Federal Department of Energy investment in Smart Grid Technology
• $9,042.22 Checks for Every adult Seattle citizen
• Half of Obama’s Entire National High Speed Rail Investment
• 198,982 Toyota Priuses
• 24 Boeing 787 Dreamliners
• One Half the Annual Apple Crop of Washington
• Doubling the Salaries and Halving the Class Size in the Seattle Public Schools for 10 years
• 10 Years Of Full Metro Funding, Which Could Carry 1.2 Billion People Over That Time, Compared With 292 Million Over the Viaduct