I recall my 5th grade teacher...
...writing a 1 followed by an impressive number of zeros on the board. And saying that this is how much money this was going to cost. And going on to point out that it was an irresponsible amount of money to spend on something so frivolous. She went on and on and was quite upset.
This was kind of silly because we were 5 graders. We did not read newspapers, did not know much of anything about federal budgeting or politics. I doubt she made any converts.