Three million Benjamins

Photographer Chris Jordan has a new series of works entitled "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait."

He created this portrait of Benjamin Franklin using images of 125,000 $100 bills — $12,500,000 representing "the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq."

To depict the $222,000,000 subsidy that the San Francisco 49ers have requested from the City of Santa Clara to build a football stadium, we'd need about 18 of these expensive portraits. [And if you include the value of the land the City has been asked to donate — for a grand total of about $287,000,000 in subsidy— we'd need 23.]

Either way, that's a lot of Benjamins.