Bringing the US budget 'cuts' as well as deficit and debt into focus

Once figures start to run into the trillions I have difficulty visualising the amounts. These two items might help you as they did me...

The first is an attempt to remove zeroes and compare the US to a family budget.

The second is a piece of CNN video that tries to explain how big a trillion is...

'CNN asks a Temple University mathematics professor how much $1 trillion actually is. The story notes Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is correct when he says that if you spent $1 million per day starting in the year 0, you still would not have spent $1 trillion by 2009.'