I just found this website that shows our total national debt:
Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application)
Looks like a huge number, right? But can you really conceive of how much money 9.4 Trillion dollars is though?
Well I did some math;
1 Billion dollars = 1000 million.
1 Trillion dollars = 1000 billion (or 1000x1000 million or 1,000,000 million dollars). That means that if you
spent 1 million dollars every single day, it would take you 1 million days (or about 2,740 YEARS) to
spend 1 trillion dollars.
Since the U.S. national debt is 9.4 trillion dollars, multiply that 2,740 years by 9.4, and you realize that
to equal our national debt, at a spending rate of ONE MILLION DOLLARS EVERY DAY, it would take you
25,753.5 years. ( YES - - ALMOST TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND YEARS!!!! )
