Regarding Hugh F. Wynn’s “The Painful Parade of Zeroes” (Letters, April 7): An even better way to emphasize the enormity of the $36 trillion national debt is to ask people how many years it would take to spend a trillion dollars at the rate of one million a day. I have asked many people this question, and their responses have ranged from four years to the low hundreds. The correct answer: 2,740 years.

William F. Meurs